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Telcos report higher data usage during New Year's
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A technician from telecommunications operator PT Indosat carries out maintenance work at one of the company’s base transceiver stations (BTS) in Jakarta. (JP/Ricky Yudhistira)
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ajor telecommunication companies have reported an increased usage of data during the New Year festive period, particularly data usage for social media.
Indosat Ooredoo reported data traffic peaked at 2.08 terabytes in the period from Dec. 31, 2016 to Jan. 1, 2017, increasing their traffic ratio by 11.26 percent from typical figures.
But voice traffic showed a decrease of 4.97 percent from normal periods, with the largest decrease of voice services in Bali, Greater Jakarta and Banten.
The decrease of the voice services indicated a shift in mobile usage to increased dependency on data than on traditional voice calls.
The company increased its data capacity to 6,890 terabytes per day for the New Year period, said Indosat’s head of corporate communications Deva Rachman in a statement on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Indosat’s business rival Telkomsel also started the year with a substantial increase to its data usage, with a payload traffic of 4.25 petabytes per day during the New Year transition, which is a 24.25 percent increase from Telkomsel’s average payload in 2016.
Its voice usage also rose but only by 0.1 percent compared to its daily average.
Telkomsel’s vice president for corporate communications Adira Irawati noted that the increase in data usage was caused by Telkomsel customers using more data for video and music streaming, as well as online gaming. (bbn)
