Yesterday, Celcom one of Malaysia’s major telecommunication service provider experienced heavy call volume, five times more during Eid celebration. The congestions effected some of it’s major network nodes causing lost of signal to most of its subscribers nationwide.
Whenever something goes wrong the first place I check would be Twitter. The impression I got from Twitter looks like it’s the end of the world, it’s the apocalypse, businesses went bankrupt as they couldn’t recover from the loses of 12 hours not being able to make calls.
There is a little bit of exaggeration going on there, but from all the cursing people are throwing to Celcom that day, it sure sounds like that’s the case. One thing I realized from the whole Celcom drama is how dependent people are on their mobile phones. I still remember a time where there is no mobile phones. I know that previous sentence makes me sound old.
We take technology for granted. Each time we flick a switch, we expect the lights to turned on. Each time we picked up a phone we expect the line is on and there is someone to talk to. If things does go as expected we curse, complaint and throw temper tantrums.
Do any of us realize the complexity and magic behind a phone call? A small little device you put next to your head transforms your voice into digital signals and then broadcast it over the air to the nearest cell tower, which then will transport that signal to other cell towers, until it finally reaches the person you are calling which he or she also has a device he or she puts next to the head that transforms the received digital signals into voices he or she can understands. It’s remarkable to think that that happens every single seconds everyday!
Do you realize what happen when you flick a light switch? It creates an electrical circuits in which tiny electrons bump into each other creating electrical currents that powers up the light bulb. Magic!
I always hear people complaint when they traveled by air. They complaint of how bad their flight was, “Airline company XYZ sucks, the flight was delayed 15 minutes and the food sucks.”
Don’t you get it? You flew here. You defied the laws of gravity. You had just embarked on the miracle of flight, suspended in the air with nothing but air holding you up. And all you have to say about that is the food sucks and you were delayed 15 minutes?
Back to the Celcom saga. Well if all telecommunication provider works all the time that what are horror film writers going to use as a plot device to create suspense? Check out the video, a montage of the most overused horror cinema plot device. The perfect video to describe what happened to Celcom subscriber yesterday.
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