"One of the causes for the rise is because many Telkomsel clients send Idul Fitri greetings through video streaming or social networks," the company`s president director, Sarwoto Atmosutarno, said in a press statement received by ANTARA here on Saturday.
He said it was also caused by the increasing use of Telkomsel Blackberry application services such as chatting and browsing while other social media services had also increased by 2.3 Gbps from normally 1.9 Gbps.
Sarwoto said the hike proved customers` confidence in the capacity and quality of Telkomsel broadband networks.
He said an increase was also recorded in the text messaging service reaching 39 percent to 1.2 billion messages a day.
The rise in the SMS traffic started on August 29, 2011 totaling 924 million and on August 30 or a day before Idul Fitri reaching 1.2 billion.
On the day of Idul Fitri, the total number of SMS messages reached 967 million and 99.63 percent of the total SMS messages were sent successfully to the addresses while 85.63 percent of them were received within less than 30 seconds.
"We have already anticipated the hike by increasing the capacity from 80,000 SMS messages per second during Idul Fitri last year to 83,750 per second this year," he said.
He said the use of telephone communication service had also risen with the traffic successfully served reaching 1.03 billion minutes or rising three percent compared to around one billion minutes in normal voice traffic.
He said in general Telkomsel did not find any significant problem with regard to providing smooth and easy telecommunications service for its customers.
To ensure its smooth service, he said, Telkomsel had prepared a team seven days before and seven days after D-Day. (*)
Editor: Kunto Wibisono
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