Euro 2024: Record data traffic for mobile operators
Big numbers for mobile phone providers: Vodafone, Telekom and Telefónica set data records during the European Championships.
German mobile network operators set data records during the European Championships.
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Streaming and discussing: The European Football Championship is boosting mobile traffic for German providers. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and O2 operator Telefónica recorded record figures, especially during the matches of the German national team, the companies announced.
According to the statement, around 260 million GBytes of data were transported nationwide on the Deutsche Telekom network during Euro 2024. Telekom users were particularly busy on the active Internet on July 5: 10.7 million GBytes ran through the Telekom network on this day with the matches between Spain and Germany and Portugal and France. However, the quarter-final between the Netherlands and Turkey holds the record for a single match, with 5,700 GBytes of mobile data passing through the network in Berlin's Olympic Stadium alone.
Handball sets data records
According to Telekom, particularly controversial moments generated discussions on social media and corresponding traffic: Marc Cucurella's late handball in the quarter-final between Germany and Spain achieved a data throughput of over 2,000 gigabits per second.
This controversial scene also brought Vodafone a data record, as the provider announced. In the 15 minutes following the handball match, Vodafone's mobile network transported more data than ever before – 175 TByte in a quarter of an hour. According to Vodafone, this is 50 percent more than usual on Friday evenings. Between June 14 and July 11, more than 225,000 TBytes are said to have passed through the Vodafone network.
Telefónica recorded less data with its O2 network: Here, 420 million GBytes of mobile data have passed through the network since the start of the European Championships. A particularly large amount of data was used during the round of 16 match between Germany and Spain, followed by other German matches. The match between the Netherlands and England was the first match without German participation to land in 4th place in O2's traffic ranking, while the match between Turkey and Austria only made it to 8th place.
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