THE FALLOUT  from the recent power outages from The Electric Transmission Company (Etesa) continued on Tuesday March 28, with thousands of smart phone users having to face a life without chats.

Digicel and Cable and Wireless (C&W) had their own electrical problem and services were affected from 8 30 a.m. to 10 45 a.m.

The problem was in the  Rio Abajo telecommunications center which provides services to the provinces of Panama (North and East), Chiriquí, Darién, Bocas del Toro and Colón,

In a statement, C & W explained that last week they received a request from the commercial electricity distributor to continuously self-generate power with its backup plants because  of the transformer explosions on March 17 and 21 in the Etesa Panama substation.

Etesa has ordered 40 new transformers, but has urged customers to go easy on power use until they are in place.