Movistar and Tuenti fell: What happened and when does the service return?

If your phone is connected to the network Movistar and you face problems using it, you are not alone. It turns out that the company is experiencing a nationwide outage, making browsing, data usage, messaging, and calling difficult. The same happens with users of Tuenti.

Immediately, social networks were flooded with queries about it, making Movistar one of the main trends on X (like Twitter).

“God, I thought it was a problem with my cell phone, but it turns out it’s Movistar”, “Is Movistar down? Nothing works for me”, “Stop restarting your phones, stop playing with data or airplane mode… it’s Movistar’s fault, what a terrible service!” These are some of the comments that circulate.

In all cases, people report lack of features and rapid signal loss.

The report sent by Movistar

So far neither Movistar nor Tuenti have issued an official statement about what happened. However, in the application the report regarding the claims says the following:

• Event: 382607
• Description / Symptom: Random problems occur in mobile telephony, generating problems for Navigating at Country Level.
• Cause: Under analysis.
• We are currently working to detect the problem. 04/24/24 11:00 MIT – Massive COUNTRY

The cutting continues

At 6:30 p.m., six hours after the massive outage, users continued to report problems on their Movistar lines: some reported difficulties using the internet, and others had no signal to make calls.

The memes of the fall of Movistar and Tuenti

As soon as the fall was confirmed, social networks did their thing and were filled with memes, complaining about the failures in the service and taking advantage of trying to rescue at least a few laughs.

The nightmare of the founder of Tuenti: kidnapped and tortured for four hours

Just this Tuesday, April 23, one day before the mass service fell in Argentina, the Spanish program ‘Code 10’ analyzed the summary of the kidnapping of Zaryn Dentzelwho was founder of Tuenti. On November 21, 2021, he lived through hell.

The young man fell into the trap of a group of assailants when he was in his home in Madrid, a luxurious 183-square-meter house with views of the Prado Museum and valued at 1.5 million euros, according to what was published Brand.

Zaryn Dentzel, founder of Tuenti, on the terrace of his house, in front of the Del Prado museum, where he was robbed a year ago. PHOTO: INMA FLORES / EL PAIS.

The kidnapped person arranged a sexual encounter with an alleged girl who was allegedly a friend of an acquaintance of Zaryn. The surprise came when she opened the door, since there were four assailants on the other side. Luis, a maintenance worker, was also in this home.

Once inside, the kidnappers locked the worker in a room and focused on the protagonist of the story. After gagging him, they spent four hours torturing him. From electric shocks to two cuts with a knife, to punctures with a screwdriver and threats.

“We are going to cut you from the balls to the neck. We are going to cut off your fingers one by one. They have hired us to kill you, but if you give us 20 million in bitcoins we will not kill you,” the assailants said. The objective was to obtain the 20 million euros that this businessman had in cryptocurrencies. However, he never gave them the keys.

They only got a few credit cards with which they were able to get more than 2,000 euros and some exclusive rolex watches, whose price ranges from 200,000 euros. “Listen, if you don’t talk you’ll soon end up dismembered. “You are going to come to Toledo and spend a month with us until you tell us what we want,” these individuals continued.

Eventually, they left separately, but after 10 months of investigation, the police were able to recognize the identity of the four. “There is no doubt that the authors had accurate and current information. They knew perfectly important details regarding Zaryn; his way of life, his circumstances…”, is established in the summary.

On May 14, the trial for kidnapping, coercion, fraud, robbery with violence and intimidation against these four individuals begins.