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Do you also congratulate Christmas on WhatsApp? Mobile data traffic shoots up 70%

Technology can be a gift in itself, but also a good tool to congratulate Christmas in a special way.Mobile phones are real wonders in terms of creative and communication possibilities.smartphone in our hands we can make funny memes or GIFs to surprise our loved ones during these parties.We can also take out our literary vein and write a beautiful text that we will send by WhtasApp to all our contacts.


Related In general, by combining these digital ingredients, we can make our Christmas 3.0 postcard with many emoticons or in the form of animation.And for all this, we need data mobile phones, whose consumption skyrockets on these very marked dates in which we all want to feel close to our family and friends.

mobile data soar on Christmas Eve and Christmas


In 2013, was WhatsApp exploded, when 18,000 million messages were sent using this messaging platform during the end of the year night, since then, The increasingly widespread use by Spanish of instant messaging apps and social networks to congratulate Christmas has given rise to the growth of mobile data traffic during the main festivities.


Specifically, data traffic through Orange's mobile network on December 24 and 25 has increased by 73% in 2017 , compared to the same dates of the previous year.During those days, the traffic exceeded 200 Gbps during the peak hour of both holidays , reaching 220 Gpbs at 11 p.m.on Christmas Eve.


Also noteworthy is the strong increase in traffic in 4G, which alone represents the 77% of the total , reaching figures that exceeded 169 Gbps during Christmas Eve and Christmas peak hours .This means multiplying traffic twice in the same period last year .


The progress of the data as a means of communication on such marked dates is more evident even if it is contrasted with the voice traffic, which still increased between Christmas Eve and Christmas by 12% compared to the same days of 2016.


Source: Orange Blog

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