Posts Tagged ‘usage’

Record Vodafone UK usage across the Festive period

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Just got this in from Ally at Vodafone:

Nearly 170m text messages were sent over the Vodafone UK network during the 24hrs of New Years Eve and Day. At its peak, just after midnight, over 6,000 text messages a second were processed. The same period saw Vodafone customers make nearly 90 million calls. The festive season also saw a record numbers of people sending picture messages, with 1 million sent on Christmas Day alone. Data usage also rose dramatically with over four times higher figures than in the same period last year.

6,000 texts a second eh?

Somehow, actually, I reckoned it would have been a lot more.

However, if you sit and work it out, that does begin to add up rather quickly. If you assumed a throughput of 5,000 messages a second for a whole minute, that would add up to 300,000 texts a minute.

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Jimmy Wales: Mobile internet usage will ‘explode’

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Well, we know this. But it’s good to hear the mobile 1.0 lot (i.e. the dotcom chaps) recognising the coming mobile revolution:

While websites may suffer in the looming recession, Mr Wales believes mobile internet will “explode” in the next couple of years. “I am constantly on my phone, and I use Facebook on here. But it is just a website on a phone, and not really integrated into the mobile,” he says. As he gets his phone out of his pocket to demonstrate how he thinks mobile social networking should develop, I can’t help but smirk. One of the key oracles of the internet has a chunky old phone, which isn’t even 3G. “It’s the same one Paris Hilton has, what do you mean it’s not the best?”

(From today’s London Telegraph).

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Getting THAT data usage letter from o2

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Kip has, apparently, used up more than 3GB of data on o2. This, according to that letter that he got from o2. The dreaded ‘you’re abusing our network’ letter.

The first he heard was this experience:

Was doing a brief shop around Sainsburys when I got an SMS through from O2. It said

‘O2 : Due to your daily data usage being extremely high following our previous warning’

Trouble is, he hadn’t had any previous warnings at all.

Then he got another text from o2 later that day:

‘O2 : Due to an administrative error you may have been contacted again regarding data usage. Please accept our sincere apologies if this error has affected you.’

THEN he got this letter from them:

Leaving him rather confused.

Is he a data fiend? No. He likes to use eMoze for his email — and he does the odd bit of mobile web surfing.

I suspect, Kip, that you will be fine. As you pointed out it looks like a bit of an administrative slip-up.

(But if in doubt, talk to Customer Services!)

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