The Vatican Governorate is informing the city state’s residents and employees that beginning on May 7 at 3 p.m. local time, “all the transmission systems of the mobile phone telecommunications signal, present in the territory of the Vatican City State … will be deactivated.”
The measure is part of the security requirements of the conclave to elect the new pope, which takes place in private in the Sistine Chapel through secret ballots.
The signal will be restored, “with the maximum speed permitted by the technology of the mobile operators,” after the announcement of the election of the new pope from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. (Catholic News Agency)
