Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal

> some information services were still able to stay online and available

I’m in Valencia, Spain.

The mobile internet connectivity here during the power outage was very unstable.

Cellular phone signal strength was also very very low for the majority of the time.

Even sending SMS or WhatsApp messages would not work most of the day, because of just how unusable mobile connection was for me and my girlfriend and our families here.

And I only managed to load news pages, national or foreign, a few times during the hours of outage, to try and get some information on what cause, how widespread, and how long it would probably take to restore power.

On the plus side I did get to try my little solar panel for the first time to try and charge one of my power banks using solar power. And it did seem to get some juice out of it.

The biggest problems of all from my pov was:

- We live on the 8th floor with a 1 year-old baby. Going 8 floors of stairs with the stroller was not fun.

- All my money is electronic, except from one 50 euro bill I had in my wallet. How was I going to pay for water and food if this outage would go on.

- What’s going on? How bad is it? How long is it going to last? Very unstable mobile internet as mentioned.

In the end we ended up staying outside going for a walk and meeting up with my mother a bit and then me and my girlfriend and our baby going to the beach and sitting there until late. Finally when we came home lights were starting to come back on. And the elevator was working again too!

The next day the first thing I did was walk to the nearest ATM and withdraw several hundred euros, and I bought a bunch of water. We don’t have a car, so I used one of my big bags with wheels to be able to bring more water home than usual.

It's one thing to have traffic data, presumably connected from some internet point or something, idk, I just assume that everything's monitored somewhere.

But how do they know users' phone battery level?

Also interesting with the sharp 10AM spike on both desktop and mobile in Germany. Video calls, I presume.

I once heard a Danish head of a university say that they wanted more Swedes to come over and work because Danish workers tend to question orders more than Swedes do.

I have no idea if this is true, just sounded funny to me.

I'm curious what was the situation with Spaniards and Portuguese people roaming elsewhere in the EU with their local phones, since roaming phones are usually patched through the home country telecoms. Did their experience differ significantly compared to their compatriots?