UDHAMPUR, Jan. 23 -- An 18-hour-long communication blackout in the remote Lalli , bariote , shergali, thatakot, Puni, Gabbar, saadi villages area of Moungri Tehsil has exposed glaring shortcomings in rural telecom infrastructure, leaving residents isolated and raising serious questions over the reliability of mobile services in Udhampur district.
The disruption occurred after a local Jio mobile tower shut down following a routine power failure, completely cutting off mobile connectivity in the area. The affected tower serves approximately 10 villages with a population of nearly 15,000 people, effectively silencing an entire rural belt for hours.
Despite the prolonged outage, official network monitoring platforms continued to show no major...