Network load increases reach 50% during pandemic

During the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the private and professional lives of Poles moved online. As the July study by IMAS International commissioned by the KRD showed, more than half of us (56.5 percent) use the phone more often during a pandemic, and a similar percentage (54.3 percent) use the Internet more often. The time spent on the Internet or with a mobile phone in hand has usually increased by 2-4 hours.
Also, the September study by Dentsu Aegis shows that the use of media, including social and digital, has increased in the pandemic months. Here, too, more than half of Poles (56 percent) admitted that they now use messengers such as Messenger more often, 27 percent more often conducts video calls (e.g. via Skype or Zoom), and 15 percent uses the internet to learn online. More frequent use of the Internet is also due to remote work, and – as the Dentsu study has shown – in the last six months, 46 percent of employees worked in the home office. Lockdown and rapid increase in network load – caused, among others, by common learning and remote work – was a stress test for operators and telecommunications infrastructure. At its peak, traffic in the Orange network increased by more than a half, and in the mobile network by a quarter. As shown by the operator's data, in crisis conditions, the optical fiber showed its advantage, which allowed users to transmit by approx. 30 percent more data than older internet access technologies.
“We allocate PLN 700-800 million annually to investments in the fiber network,” Maciej Nowohoński, member of the management board of Orange Polska, said.
Almost 5 million households in Poland are within the range of this technology.
(Newseria)