In March of this year, the largest telecommunications company in Australia Telstra has been a massive failure, which resulted in a third of the population lost their mobile for the entire day. That though as-that to soften the anger of the Australians, the head of Telstra has announced that Sunday, April 3, all its clients can use the Internet without traffic limits. Some Australians took that as a challenge and tried to use the operator’s network.
A resident of Sydney, named John Sasvari decided that this is his chance. April 3 dot 4GX, which is near his home, he connected the laptop via wifi to my smartphone and started downloading data. For day, a young man downloaded: 14 seasons of “Mythbusters”, the 24th season of “the Simpsons”, the whole database of Wikipedia, office Microsoft, update, Xbox games and many others. etc. In the result, he was able to download via mobile Internet about 1 TB of data. Almost 100 GB was spent on downloading personal files – photos and videos to the cloud.
It should be noted that this is not the first time such a large-scale failure at Telstra this year, a similar situation arose on February 9, when more than half a million customers lost mobile for the entire day. After the first accident on 9 February, the operator also did a free traffic for all its customers. In that time Australians have reacted to the offer provider by downloading “day of reckoning” 1841 TB information.
According to experts, this amount is equivalent to 2.1 million 5.1 million movies or episodes of TV series “Game of thrones”.
