Providers see data usage during the new year to significantly increase

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The Dutch and Belgians have significantly more mobile internet use than last year during the new year. At Vodafone and Proximus grew the amount of data that verstookt was 80 percent. At T-Mobile, it was 42 percent, while the increase in KPN to 23 percent.

Each year, a growing use of mobile internet during the old and the new lot compared to the year before. Especially im services like WhatsApp and status updates on Facebook and Twitter are responsible for ensuring that mobile internet is growing, while users with each other a number of years ago, especially by text messages and calls happy new year wished.

Also this year was a big jump made, ascertain Vodafone, T-Mobile and KPN, although the growth figures for the three providers significantly. Vodafone customers consumed a whopping 82 percent more data during the turn of the year than last year, with Vodafone the time between 18.00 and 04.00 measured. Of the data took the 3g network to 80 percent, while 5 percent are still on 2g expires and Vodafone now 15 percent via 4g handles. Vodafone took a number of measures to load, good to be able to act. Calls and sms’, and took off at Vodafone. The number of new year sent sms messages decreased by 10 percent.

Calls over 3g network, Vodafone in the new year versus a normal day

Between 23.00 and 01.00 took the amount of data that customers at T-Mobile verstookten increased by 42 percent compared to the turn of the year last year. The growth flattens off at this provider: the increase amounted last year to 78 percent compared to the year before. According to the provider ran a quarter of the data traffic via 4g in areas with coverage for, such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht.

KPN customers consumed a total of 7.5 TB at the turn of the year, against 6,1 TB last year. That is an increase of 23 per cent. during the Night was four times as much data over the 4g network accounted for as during the 31 december, reports KPN further. The number of sms messages that KPN during the new year httphandler declined significantly, from 12.8 million last year to 8.5 million, but the voice traffic increased from 4.7 million calls to 5 million.

In Belgium, consumed customers of Proximus between 20 hours Tuesday night and 8 hours Wednesday 5 million MB of data. That was an increase of 80 percent compared to the same period last year, when 2.8 million MB. The number sent sms messages decreased by 9 percent at Proximus customers sent 27.2 million sms. Last year, there were 30 million text messages between new year’s eve 20: 00 and nieuwjaarsmorgen 08.00 pm sent.