Camera courtesy of Voth's Countrywide Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1

It was a tough time getting a hold of loved ones for about 40,000 SaskTel cellular customers.

The Crown Corporation's 3G+ network was out for much of the day Sunday, affecting both voice and text messaging. The service was fully restored late Sunday afternoon.

SaskTel home phone and CDMA cell services were both working normally, and the cause of the outage is being investigated.