For many people it has long been customary to send new year’s wishes to physically distant friends and relatives, and that trend appears to continue growing.
A POST statement issued on Monday reveals that the mobile network of the telecommunications provider was used to exchange 168 terabytes of data, which equals a year-over-year increase of 1.8%.
Text messages recorded a more significant increase. While 379,300 were sent in 2022, that number rose to 653,234 in 2023, a staggering plus of 72%.
Since 2018, the number of text messages sent on New Year’s Eve and Day has continuously decreased by a great degree while the used data volume has significantly increased.
New Year’s changeover | Number of SMS sent via POST mobile network | Volume of data used on POST mobile network |
2023 | 653.234 | 168 To |
2022 | 379.300 | 165 To |
2021 | 831.700 | 136 To |
2020 | 1.11 million | 95.8 To |
2019 | 1.29 million | 62.2 To |
2018 | 1.49 million | 50.2 To |
Data provided by POST Luxembourg, 2 January 2023
