“Major increase in mobile internet traffic during the new year”

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Compared to last year acted Vodafone’s 55 per cent and KPN three times more mobile internet traffic during the turn of the year. Also, T-Mobile processed during the night a lot of data. The number of phone calls and sent sms messages decreased.

A large part of the new year’s wishes was via 4g sent, according to Vodafone: traffic via 4g quadrupled compared to last year. “The peak in dates is getting bigger but we were well prepared”, says the spokesperson of Vodafone. During the turn of the year were more than 7 million phone calls, and that was a decline of 3.6 percent compared to last year.

Further, there were still 15 million sms messages sent. Although that is still a big number, it means a decrease of almost 30 percent compared to a year ago. Finally, it notifies Vodafone that in Amsterdam the most was called, and particularly on the Dam, while in Rotterdam the majority of the data was used.

Where Vodafone between 18.00 and 04.00 31 Terabyte httphandler, it went to T-Mobile between 00.00 and 02.00 to 8470GB of traffic. This is at T-Mobile, an increase of 182 percent compared to a normal Wednesday night at these times. In total, the processed T-Mobile 2.230.597 calls between at midnight and two hours at night. The number of sent sms-messages know the provider not to report.

Both providers report that they the extra call and data traffic without problems could handle during the peak hours. There has been talk of a big increase in traffic during the new year. A number of years ago called and text at people, especially during new year’s eve, but in the meantime, bring a majority of new year’s greetings via services like WhatsApp, SnapChat, Telegram, Facebook and Twitter.

KPN has acted in almost three times more mobile data than last year around the turn of the year and the increase is largely attributable to 4g, according to KPN. The number of text messages during on new year’s eve fell from 8.5 million to 6 million and the number of mobile telephone calls remained at KPN virtually unchanged at almost 5 million.