16 million SMSes in three days: Cell C
In a statement by spokesman Happy Zondi, the company said that there were 3.8 million SMSes sent on December 30, seven million on December 31, 2005 and 5.3 million on January 1, 2006.
She said the computer system could not pick up the figure for December 30 in 2004, but on December 31, 2004, 5.2 million SMSes were sent and the following day – January 1, 2005 – 3.7 million.
Zondi said traffic increased considerably after 20:00. and peaked at midnight on New Year’s eve, December 31, 2005. It increased again after 06:00. on New Year’s day January 1, 2006.
Earlier, I-Net Bridge reported that South African cellular network Vodacom acquired more than one million new subscribers in the month of December 2005, taking its South African subscriber base to 17.5 million.
The company said in a statement that this placed Vodacom as the fastest growing network within the Vodafone global stable and is a strong indication of the optimism in and buoyancy of the South African economy as it enters 2006.
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