Augh!!!

Day 3 with no cell phone service, which, in Afghanistan, means Day 3 with no phone service. There are no landlines in Afghanistan.

The story I've been told, which is just insane enough to be believable, is that there's a new law that all cell phone users must register their passports. Since this is a new law, none of the old cell phone users have done so. So, rather than sending out a text message to everyone telling them to register by a certain date, the cell phone company just shut down everyone's service.

There are only two cell phone companies in Afghanistan, so imagine the chaos this has caused. Again, I'm not 100% sure this is true, though I have it on good authority (our security specialist, who's paid to know these things). But there are massive crowds around the cell phone company's offices.

Fortunately, my company has a logistics department to deal with these things so I don't have to.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been dealt with.