The “Internet Blackout” In Ghana

in #hive-1768748 months ago

It was 14th March that I understood how important internet is in our lives. Personally, I was so down the whole of 14th March.
It was just a normal morning until we were really hit by “the internet blackout”.
I checked my phone in the morning, replied some emails, came on hive to engage for about 5 minutes, went about my morning routine only for me to come back and nothing was loading on my phone.

At first, I thought I run out of internet data which seemed weird because I had gotten some not long ago. Just to be on a safer side, I bought data again. After waiting till eternity, I didn’t even receive the data subscription message. I just said let me change my sim card. I changed my sim card to Vodafone and bought another internet data on that sim card too. After about 30 minutes, it seemed like vodafone was even worse. I got to know that it was a national/international issue and they were working on it.

After about an hour of the internet issue, the lights went out. I’m not really afraid of heat and apart from using electricity to charge my devices, I really don’t use it for anything else. The lights were off for about 6 hours which was highly unusual so I really knew something was so wrong somewhere. According to what I heard, there were some damage done to the undersea network wires. I don’t even know how network wires are undersea, aren’t they supposed to be in the air?(I will leave that for the experts)

The weird part about the issue was some Web 2 platforms were working well so it was giving us hope that it’d be restored soon. Truly, it’s the hope that kills because I kept on moving from ecency to hive blog to peakD to see if there has been any improvement and it was still the same. Most offices that use internet to work had to close earlier than the usual time
I just agreed to let my phone be and spend my days eating and watching movies. I think I’ve eaten a lot in the past few days than I have the whole of this year.

As I’m writing this, I have no idea when the network will come back but you will definitely see this as soon as it comes.
It’s 17th March, Sunday. The internet issue is still being resolved. Almost 4 days without internet.
Thinking about all that I felt when I could not access hive, it dawned on me how much joy I get just from being here and how much impact the blockchain has on me as a person.

Looking at how stranded I have been feeling without being able to come on here, I now understand what they mean by you only value something when you don’t have it anymore. I hope it’s not weird to say I missed you all because, I actually did.

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Words cannot express how happy I am Abena🥳🥳🥳🥳💃. We being able to access hive now though limited is good news.

I see you’ve been enjoying the free time with good food 😅.

Prepare for my song 🔥😅

I heard it’s not been fully resolved
They said it will last for 5 weeks
I’m preparing for your song please 😂

Yeah I saw that 5 weeks update and got scared 😂. Hopefully, they work faster

😂 don’t worry, I’ll surprise you

I’m waiting 😂

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Personally, I was only worried about not being on hive because I was just about to make a post when the internet just stopped working.

For some reason, I feel this 4 days of internet is the break most people needed away from social media. I wasn’t really affected that much aside the hive part which made me have sleepless night.😂

I wasn’t even able to use web 3 platforms.

Yeah I also needed this but not being able to access hive was just giving me anxiety

Me I even made the post and I thought it had posted only to come back and hweeem😂

😂😂we could have killed a lot.

😂😂😂 surprise surprise!

🤣🤣

Guess we are lucky from this end as it wasn't that bad here. 6 hours blackout and you knew something was definitely wrong somewhere 😂🤣.. I bet if apocalypse was to start with a blackout, we all in Nigeria would be doomed cause we'd take it as normal till it actually happens.

For real you guys wouldn’t even know 🤣🤣🤣

We won't, we will think it is Normal 😂🤣. I had thought the network issue was normal till I heard about the cable yesterday 😂🤣😂.

Jeez... Why this be like film for my eyes? That's how bad it was? Damn.

The network better improves before this aunty Abena eats pass her power

What's that I see, toast bread? Why so decorated?

Yes it’s really that bad
The network better comes o😂

It’s leftover burger that I toasted 😂

Ha...you know you can be prosecuted for that

🤣🤣

Sis
Endure, it's everywhere
Lives won't be lost just weeks without Internet 🤣🤣
Well, just see it as an opportunity to connect more physically with your family and friends
And enjoy more food😏

Lives can really be lost sir 🤣

I almost went into depression that last 4days ago
Netflix going
WhatsApp going
Instagram going
Facebook going
Tiktok going

Hive not going
Bank not going
Binance not going
Chrome not going
Trading platform not going
Making money not going

Web2 and internet are planning to waste my life😭😭😭

You even have web2?
I don’t have so I wouldn’t really know 😂😂

Well, we can’t have web3 if we don’t have web2

wow, i didn't know it will hit you guys too, the blackout was really surprising, couldn't do online stuff and i even got frustrated at some point, switching between different network yet no result. I hope they got it fixed as soon as possible because internet is really important like breathe is to human

Yeah it has really been frustrating

Ghana didn't Cedis coming

At all

I hope you didn't resort to VPN

No I didn’t

Rich people don't use VPN 😂😂

🤣🤣🤣

Abenad is rich🙌🏾🤲🏾

It has been terrible, even here in Nigeria we have not been able to do anything via Internet, 😭😔 I hope they resolve it.

I hope so

After all this while, this is the time I’m now able to access post on here😂😂.

It was just so frustrating that I decided to focus on other things. Today I said lemme just come and check

🤣🤣🤣that long time

Let's celebrate this reconnection. After 1 day apart we are all together again!🥂😊

Yayy, let’s celebrate