Sentence examples for networks crashed from inspiring English sources

The telephone networks crashed.

Meanwhile, websites of associations for North Korean defectors said that their networks crashed earlier on Tuesday.

Soon, lights went off; hospitals were shut; and mobile networks crashed.

When phone networks crashed during the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011, many people turned to Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and Mixi, a social-networking website in the country.

There were so many people that it overwhelmed the cell networks, crashing internet connections in the hall.

It overwhelmed the Baltic nation's computer networks, crashing e-mail for its parliament, taking down emergency phone lines and freezing online services of government offices, banks, universities and hospitals.

Demand was outstripping capacity, and it was only a matter of months before the entire network crashed or froze.

He used the computers of the Market Vision graphics studio company in Irvington, whose computer network crashed because of an overload of data.

"Our deployment plan is quite conservative," said NTT DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa, who is mindful of the bad publicity his company received last year when the computers driving its i-mode wireless voice and text-messaging network crashed several times.

Tens of millions of Britons were affected when the O2 data network crashed yesterday, leaving them unable to use the internet on their phones or in some cases to make calls.

Caught unawares by the sudden surge in interest, the town at first appeared to buckle under the strain: the few restaurants were running short on food, the corner store was picked dry by the end of each weekend, and the mobile network crashed.