While the Belgians had to spend Christmas in small groups, the exchange of Christmas greetings, messages, photos or videos, via mobile internet were acclaimed this year even if the trend has been observed for several years.At Proximus, there has been an upward trend of 26% in the volume of mobile data used by Proximus customers compared to last year. For fixed connections, Proximus has noticed a clear increase in data traffic of around 69% more compared to the same period in 2019 “but which remains +/- 15% lower than a normal evening in December “. Finally, sms are still less popular, a regular trend for years due to the success of mobile internet. About 4 million text messages were sent, a drop of 24%. At Orange, mobile Internet traffic has also increased: + 27.2% compared to Christmas 2019. “On social networks, Facebook has the lion’s share, with nearly 62% of the total data volume of networks social, followed by Instagram, SnapChat, WhatsApp and TikTok, ”Orange explains Friday. The voice remains important with more than 1.3 million calls made to Orange, however, a decrease of just over 11.4%. “Note also the progression of calls transmitted by mobile Internet (voice-over 4G), which now represent 63% of voice calls”, explains the operator. Text messages declined by 34%. (Belga)
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