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Phone problems on New Year's night? Cut the networks some slack...
Tech Digest — ... a second, but obviously in the hour or so around the New Year, that will have been considerably higher. Extrapolating out a bit, given three and a half other major phone networks, that means that something like half a billion messages were sent in the UK in a 24-hour period. I'm an O2 customer, and had a perfectly fine phone conversation just after midnight with no connection problems whatsoever. If you've got a system that can cope with that, and survive unscathed, then I salute you. O2 Media Centre (via ...

166 SMS text messages sent through O2’s network on New Year’s Eve!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — Talk about a record! O2 (NYSE: TEF) has announced that their network ushered a record-setting 166 million SMS text messages over a 24 hour period that ended 7:30am on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). That works out to a whopping 1,900 text messages sent every single second of the day! The rush of wireless subscribers sending out celebratory “Happy New Year!” text messages wasn’t exactly unexpected. Last year, we saw wireless networks become overloaded with text messages. The shear volume of text messaging subscribers was enough to delay text messages for several minutes, in some cases even failing to deliver messages. ...