Telecommunication Traffics During End of Ramadan
As written in the previous posting testing-time-for-operators-network, the end of Ramadan is the peak traffic both for voices and short message services for Indonesian Cellular Operators. Below are the data for telecommunication traffics as reported by each operator to the DG Postel.
PT Excelcomindo Pratama (XL) data shows the highest traffic is at D-1 (Sept 30th) where the total traffic is 149% above the data of D-1 last year. The voice call at D-1 is 143% above last year (850 million calls compares to 350 million call on last year). The SMS is only 16% above of last year data.
PT Indosat Tbk announced that the highest voice call occurred on D+1 (Oct 2nd), up around 108% (272 million seconds) compares to the data from mids September this year. Meanwhile, the SMS traffic just decreased 0.7% at the same period.
The data from the biggest cellular operator in Indonesia, Telkomsel was not announced so far. However, they have seen that the short message traffic was up around 300%-400% from normal days.
Gatot Dewa S Broto, public relation of DG Postel assumed that the increment of voice calls is caused by several reasons. Firstly, traumatic experienced because some of their short messages were not delivered last year. They do not want to have the same thing happened again. Secondly, the cost of voice call is very cheap nowadays. Hence, the people used them to communicate directly.
Monitoring Result
On September 23rd, DG Postel and BRTI checked the network coverage of all operators along the way of returning back to native village (Most people in Indonesia will return back to their native village at the end of Ramadan to celebrate Muslim Holiday) . The test results have been released that all operators pass the test. Some notes are given to the Three (HCPT), Axis (GSM & 3G), Startone and Hepi (CDMA). Not all of them cover the pathway well, but they are still okay.
Unfortunately the test is only for coverage. Other information such as dropped call, blocked call and congestion call are not mentioned. The successful of a call is calculated from these data. The standard quality of services were calculate not only from coverage but also form these data. So, to say an operator pass a standard quality of services, their dropped call, blocked call and congestion call data should be in a reasonable value. We hope regulators have been defined these values.
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