Phones heated up again on New Year’s Eve. As a result, mobile data consumption increased by 30% compared to last year with a total of 532,675 gigabytes recorded by Proximus. The Orange network processed 576,866 gigabytes of mobile data, an increase of 17% compared to last year.
“The most popular applications for sharing wishes remain Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. SnapChat and WhatsApp complete the top five“, underlines the operator Orange in a press release.
Although the number of text messages is decreasing year by year, texting remains a popular means of communicating New Year’s greetings, according to figures from the country’s two main operators. “The volume is approximately 70% higher than a normal night“, indicates Wednesday Proximus, which counted 5,434,014 SMS exchanged between 8:00 p.m. on December 31 and 8:00 a.m. on January 1. On the Orange network, a total of 6.3 million SMS messages were sent to wish a happy new year, which represents an increase of 50% compared to last year, reports the telecom company. “At midnight, a peak of 2,604 SMS per second was reached“, she adds.
The number of calls is down compared to last year. In total, 4,106,257 calls were made via the Proximus network (-3%). On the Orange network, 4.7 million telephone conversations were made, a drop of 8% compared to last year.
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