New Year's Eve Puts Wireless Networks to the Test: Ookla
New Year’s Eve 2023 put a heavy demand on networks of major carriers worldwide that resulted in degradation as the world greeted 2024, Ookla Research said this week. “What is clear is that the New Year presents network operators with…
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the challenge of serving sufficient bandwidth to customers attending major New Year celebrations, allowing them to share the moment, but also to support the mass wishing of ‘Happy New Year’ across a variety of channels.” For example, Belgian carrier Proximus saw a 95% increase in mobile data traffic on New Year’s Eve in 2023 compared with a year earlier. Ookla focused on speeds from the worst 10% of connections in several markets. Berlin, London, New York and Paris “saw 5G download speeds for 10th percentile drop by between 1.13 Mbps and 6.88 Mbps,” while Bangkok, Hong Kong and Sydney “saw performance drop by between 15.13 Mbps and 21.44 Mbps.”