+ French Send SMS Surge Across Mobile Networks On New Year’s
Via AFP

French mobile phone users set a new national record for text messages overnight, as they sent New Year’s wishes surging across cell networks, the major operators said Monday. More than 36 million SMSs were sent through transmitters owned by SFR and France Telecom subsidiary Orange between midnight and 1:00 am (2300 GMT and 0000 GMT), the two companies said.

+ India: Telecom networks jammed as New Year traffic peaks
Via The Hindu:

New Year celebrations were dampened yet again with consumers having to face a jammed telephone network even as SMS traffic surged more than 250 per cent across the country compared to the traffic on any other day.

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