Virgin Media Broadband See 25.7 Million Devices Active on Christmas Day

Cable operator Virgin Media has informed ISPreview.co.uk that 25.76 million devices (e.g. Internet-connected TVs, Tablets and Smartphones) were used across 4,952,236 active broadband connections via their network during Christmas Day (up 8% on 2015), which occurred between 5pm and 10pm.

Similarly Virgin Mobile’s 4G supporting network saw customers’ gobble almost 12TB (TeraBytes) of data in total over the festive period, which they claim was largely used to send Christmas wishes via text, tweets or by video calls etc. On average, each 4G customer used around 81MB (MegaBytes) of data

Elsewhere Virgin Media predicts that roughly 1 million WhatsApp messages will be sent by Virgin Mobile customers at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day. It has also been calculated that in total around 98,000MB of data will be sent by 4G, as people take to their phones to welcome in 2017, where the average user could send five pictures via Snapchat or Facebook, or tweet 129 celebratory messages.

Meanwhile the story was similar for Boxing Day, which recorded 20,442,996 devices via 4,617,544 active fixed line broadband connections between 10am and 12noon.