Sunday, January 1, 2017

23 million text messages on new year’s eve – Adresseavisen

the Case is updated.

Telenor registered 16 million text messages for the period from midnight on the night of 31. December to at 6 on Sunday 1. January. In the same period of time, it was sent 1.1 million picture messages.

– Even if it is in the record year 2007 were sent the entire 29,9 million SMS on new year’s eve, it sent out more than this in the day when we include all messages sent via the including Snapchat, iMessage, Hangouts and social media, ” says Bjørn Amundsen, dekningsdirektør in Telenor Norway.

Telenor’s competitor Telia has, for the first time registered a decline in the number of sent SMS and MMS on new year’s eve. Telia announces 7 million SMS, while the previous new year’s eve was sent to 14 million SMS via Telias network in Norway. The number of sent MMS has also fallen, but the use of mobile data increased 70 percent.

– A halving of the number of messages is significant, but we see at the same time an explosive increase in the use of mobile data. Apps like iMessage, WhatsApp and Snapchat have probably taken a lot of traffic, ” says Karl Fredrik Lund, director at Telia Private.

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