AT&T Saw Surge in Texting Tied to Eclipse
AT&T saw more than 1.1 billion MMS messages on its network Monday tied to the eclipse. That is 273 million more messages than are sent on a typical day, Chris Sambar, AT&T head-network, blogged Wednesday. Sambar noted the network has…
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changed since the last total eclipse in the U.S., in 2017. “Our network is virtualized and can now handle much more capacity at much higher speeds,” he said. AT&T saw 168 petabytes of data on an average business day in 2017, compared with 680 petabytes today, Sambar said.