The volume of transmitted data increased by 267% to nearly 400 TB
The number of calls dropped slightly to 20.4 million
The number of text messages declined to 14.9 million
New Year’s Eve traffic in the T-Mobile network again confirmed the trend which consists in a shift from traditional calls and text messages towards data. As compared with the same day of last year, overall data traffic grew by 267%, with traffic in the LTE network alone increasing by 327%. The other mobile services saw a slight decline. A total of 20.4 million calls were made in the operator’s network and the SMS centre processed 14.9 million text messages.
The total volume of transmitted date grew by 267% to 398.9 terabytes. The largest volume of data was handled by the LTE network, which saw a 327% increase as compared with New Year’s Eve 2016. Mobile internet users were most active between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (last year, it was between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.).
The total number of incoming and outgoing calls was 20.4 million, which is down by nearly 2% as compared with 2016. As usual, the busiest hour was the first hour after midnight, when the systems registered more than 2.8 million calls.
As compared with the same day of last year, the total number of text messages declined by 6.7% to nearly 14.9 million. The busiest hour was traditionally between 11:45 p.m. and 12:45 a.m., with the busiest quarter of an hour being again the 15 minutes between 12:15 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. on the New Year’s Day.
On New Year’s Eve 2017, customers sent nearly 342,000 multimedia messages, which is down by 1.4% as compared with last year. The busiest hour and quarter of an hour were the same as in the case of text messages.
New Year’s Eve was celebrated in the Czech Republic also by a large number of foreign visitors; the majority of them were Germans, followed by Ukrainians, Russians, Austrians and Slovaks (for details, please see the enclosed chart).