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Latest developments in Moscow: 3G networks have been turned off due to high traffic, Openspace reported [RUS]; bloggers call for blood donations [RUS].
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Why turn off the 3G networks? I don’t see a constructive reason to do that.
Dear Bethan, as Openspace explains it, the bandwidth was overloaded with phone calls and text messages, so cell phone providers turned off the 3G function of the network to win some bandwidth.