Telecom blackout in 2010

Flares from Sun can cause a telecommunication blackout forcing mobile phones and navigational systems to go off in year 2010. As 2010 approaches, more and more scientists around the world will be tuning their telescopes towards the Sun to try and detect sudden eruption of highly destructive solar flares, which have the ability to cause a 'telecommunication blackout' across the globe.

Solar flares and coronoal mass ejections (CME) from the Sun have the ability to travel all the way to the earth and create a black out of cellular phone services and navigational systems such as the GPS (Global Positioning System)

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