Internet and phone provider TalkTalk ( AOL UK ) has released a mass of interesting new statistics about how subscribers use its broadband and phone services. The information reveals that the busiest times of the week for internet data usage (i.e. downloading) are on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings.

Highlights from TalkTalk's Network Stats

* The busiest time for telephone calls is consistently a Monday evening when around 110 million minutes are collectively used (declines to 70 million on a Sunday).

* Total number of minutes of calls made during June 2011 - 2.9 billion.

* Most people online at one time – 2.75 million.

* Peak internet usage (35 Terabytes of data in one day) occurred on 2nd June 2011, which was the day that Sony's Playstation Network (PSN) was restored following an earlier hack attack.

* Traffic on TalkTalk's network reached 328Gbps (Gigabits per second) on 2nd June 2011 and incredibly 70Gbps of this was Google.

TalkTalk claims that its new statistics demonstrate the capacity and resilience of their network and hints of a future "possibility [where] all 4.2 million of our customers may want to get online at the same time". Sadly the ISP didn't give statistics for other areas of interest, such as total calls to their customer support lines or service complaints.

The ISP recently revealed that its engineers had also carried out approximately 100,000 visits between October 2010 and June 2011 in order to fix faults related to home broadband performance (here).