{"id":22087,"date":"2020-04-29T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22087"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:15:19","slug":"covid-19-impact-openreachs-network-traffic-by-uk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/covid-19-impact-openreachs-network-traffic-by-uk-region.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Impact &#8211; Openreach&#8217;s Network Traffic by UK Region UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) has kindly furnished ISPreview.co.uk with some up-to-date data that shows the change in their weekly network traffic (Ethernet, broadband etc.) by each region of the United Kingdom due to the impact of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis. London saw the biggest jump (28.58%) to 112.37 PetaBytes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since most adults and children are now stuck at home during the lockdown then much of the recorded increase relates to daytime network traffic, while during the evenings the operator noted that &#8220;<em>network traffic remains pretty much unchanged &#8230; and still well below the more extreme peaks we experienced just before Christmas, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> live streamed multiple Premier League matches at the same time<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The findings are roughly consistent with what we&#8217;ve seen all though the current crisis. We should add, in case it wasn&#8217;t already obvious, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> are of course one of the main connectivity suppliers for various major data links, hundreds of fixed line broadband ISPs and mobile network operators etc.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the figures below represent weekly totals (w\/c = week commencing from Monday onwards) in <strong>PetaBytes<\/strong> of data. The original source data also included information for the week commencing 13th April 2020 but those figures were almost identical to 20th April period and so we&#8217;ve only used the most recent week.<\/p>\n<p>The 24th February was picked because it&#8217;s fairly representative of the pre-COVID-19 picture, which began to really have an impact through March until we settled into the new normal. Otherwise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> said they&#8217;ve had no trouble coping with the extra load: &#8220;<em>We\u2019re not experiencing any issues and we don\u2019t anticipate any<\/em>,&#8221; said the operator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> 1 PetaByte is equal to 1,000 TeraBytes (TB) or 1,000,000 GigaBytes (GB).<\/div>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 50pt;\" width=\"67\" span=\"4\"> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>Region<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>w\/c 24th Feb<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>w\/c 20th April<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>% Increase<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30.05pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"height: 30.05pt; width: 50pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;\" width=\"67\" height=\"40\">East Midlands<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"width: 50pt; 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