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Six years ago, when the movie “Transcendence” with Johnny Depp came out, we saw the result of a complete collapse of the Internet world. It happened in the last minute of the movie, in its epilogue even, and it seemed like the immediate result was a kind of reincarnation of the clock dials 100 years back, into the era of water cleaners and horse carts.
All of this somehow relates to the last days, where the record consumption of internet is recorded by some of the suppliers in Israel: it is consumption of 90% and more capacity. Meanwhile, most companies in Israel have already acquired additional capacity from Internet infrastructure providers, but in a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Communications determined that even if 100% of capacity is reached – the result will slow down the speed of browsing but not a complete collapse.
Infrastructure: The capacity of the underwater cable can hold
flash. Bezeq reports a peak in Internet consumption over the weekend: 2,318 gigabytes, which is 50 gigabytes higher than the peak set on Thursday. Factors in the communications industry seek to calm down, emphasizing that total data traffic to Israel – 5,000 gigabytes, is still far from exhausted, and that current consumption This is less than 10 percent of the capacity of the underwater cable, which data from internet companies show that peak consumption is measured between 20:00 and 24:00 daily, with an average increase of between 20 and 30 percent in stationary and mobile.
Netflix. So far, Netflix continues to provide the full bandwidth in Israel, although the communications ministry is considering the possibility of contacting Netflix with a demand to reduce broadcast bandwidth and thereby reduce data traffic. This follows a similar request from the EU from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus. The companies responded to the request on the weekend, and Disney even agreed to postpone the launch in France from March 24 to April 7. The Ministry of Communications estimates that reducing the bandwidth of Netflix in Israel will significantly reduce data traffic and ease peak demand.
HOT. Hot has reported more than 15% increase in requests from companies to increase their bandwidth. Internet consumption over the past weekend reached a peak of more than 40% compared to last month. In the past week, there was a 27% increase in average daily traffic compared to the previous month.
Cellcom. Cellcom reports an increase of about 2,000% in demand for business expansion in the business sector, as well as explaining that moving to work from home brings in central bodies such as the IDF, MDA, Shiba and Ichilov hospitals, and Shufersal, the International Bank, Mekorot and more, to increase Their internet consumption, since they are required for home and work ability in a secure and encrypted manner. For example, demand for virtual conference rooms increased by 800%, as did the expansion of centric speech channels.
Speech: The return of “regular” phone calls
Bezek international. Bezeq reports an increase of up to 50% in network traffic. Last week, the company warned that there may be difficulties in surfing due to network congestion. The company’s customers reported slowing down and disconnections. Bezeq said: “Given the high consumption on the Internet, the company has carried out and continues to make tens of percent more bandwidth extensions at all times, to meet the high demand.”
Cell phone. According to Pelephone, there has been a 60-70% reduction in the use of the Pango app in recent days and a 50-60 percent reduction in the use of the Waze app, while a significant increase in the use of Wattsap has almost tripled. Cisco technology company reports tens of percent use of conference systems, with more than 8 billion minutes of talk on the platform since the beginning of March.
partner. Another significant phenomenon is the increase in demand for regular telephone calls. Partner reports 30% increase in daily call with international targets, noting that in these days of isolation and concern around the world, Israelis are communicating more to family and friends abroad. Partner is also reporting an increase in demand for Partner’s fiber optic infrastructure, whose number of subscribers Estimated by more than 500,000 households, with reports of slow surfing in Bezeq and Hot infrastructure – some of which are due to subscriber loads on individual lines of communication – the interest in connecting fiber-optic to the home, which allows surfing up to 1,000 megabytes without the influence of neighbors, has increased. Because the company has in recent days been under load and beyond the advanced infrastructure dead.
HOT. Bhut reports a 25% increase in the number of calls made over the landline and a 34% increase in the length of the calls.
Content: What do the Israelis want to see?
HOT. Bhut notes that last week the highest amount of orders to date was registered in Hot Vod, with a 55% increase, estimated at hundreds of thousands of orders. It turns out that viewers are returning to the Israeli series – “Zagori Empire,” “Asfur,” “The Selector,” and “The Champion,” which has reached hundreds of thousands of views. Among the children, the lead series is Yuval Samu’s new comedy “Taking Care”, which reached half a million views a week. The ten most frequently viewed content among Hot customers is: “Kibbutzniks”, “Friends”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Golstar”, “The Special Big Thing”, “Prime Box”, “The Proud Society”, “The Champion”, “Asfour” And “Zagori Empire.”
partner. Partner TV reports a more than 50% increase in daily TV viewing compared to last month. This is the total viewing time on the TV screen and not just the rating of live channels. The Partner TV system weighs the total viewing time on channels, VOD, recordings, Catch up, streaming apps (Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, etc.) and games, and the data is measured from hundreds of thousands of Android TV converters. Partner reports that the most-booked movie on VOD for two weeks in a row is “spread”, which describes a fictitious event of a U.S. virus outbreak in a way that almost accurately predicts the corona virus outbreak. Indicating the children’s free time these days.
yes. Yes reports an increase of about 56% on news and news broadcasts, an increase of about 45% on children’s content on channels and VOD, and a general increase of about 35% on VOD. The company has opened all children’s and premium lifestyle channels free of charge, launched the “isolation channel” with the Ministry of Health’s VOD service and thousands of content to watch the isolation, including three dedicated children’s channels.
Service: What will be with the wait times
The telecommunications market is defined as part of the economy’s emergency system and therefore the engineering systems of the telecommunications companies continue to work at full scale, having received government approval not to reduce the number of employees. The Ministry of Communications has instructed the companies that the technical support service must continue to stand together for up to 6 minutes of standby time, and customer service can extend to 12 minutes standby.
Cellcom Announced that the company is fully available in the technical focus, integration teams are ready to reach customers at all times and the company’s engineering teams are working non-stop 24/7 to take care of network competence and maintain customer activity and experience. B-HOT It is said that the company is a vital provider that is continuously functional in emergencies and has therefore launched a dedicated customer service center in isolation. Bpartner Note that the company’s engineering personnel work 24 hours a day with the approval of the Ministry of Communications and in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s instructions.
In companies Yes, Pelephone and Bezeq International Continuous service to customers is ensured: the technician system operates in full format and customer service works in a 50% format with over 50% of the representatives answering remotely.
