News and opinion by Mathew Carr

May 11, 2025 — edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/sunspots-disrupt-phones-gps-scn/index.html

A lot is made of the pretty skies … but some shops in London (for example) can’t sell stuff unless customers have cash.

Perhaps we need backup comms… eg via satellite?

It could be that some networks, O2 in my case and in my retailer’s case, are worse than others.

(correct: I wrongly had May 10 on this story initially)