Tiskové centrum
Tiskové centrum
1. January 2019

New Year’s Eve 2018 in the T-Mobile network

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 106%, with traffic in the LTE network alone increasing by 112 %. The other mobile services stayed the same. A total of 22.8 million calls were made in the operator’s network and the SMS centre processed 14.8 million text messages.

The total volume of transmitted date grew by 106% to 820.5 terabytes. The largest volume of data was handled by the LTE network, which saw a 111% increase as compared with New Year’s Eve 2017. Mobile internet users were most active between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

The total number of incoming and outgoing calls was 22.8 million, which is up by nearly 12% as compared with 2017. As usual, the busiest hour was the first hour after midnight.

As compared with the same day of last year, the total number of text messages was the same, nearly 14.8 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 2018, customers sent nearly 340,000 multimedia messages, which is down by 1 % 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, Slovaks and Austrians.