Christmas and New Year Holidays, 3 Indonesia Records Mobile Game Application Usage Increases 80 Percent

GAMEFINITY.ID, Jakarta – During the Christmas and New Year holidays, 3 Indonesia recorded an overall increase in internet usage by 15% and the use of mobile games Garena Free Fire an increase of 80 percent. This is due to the large number of customers who spend the year-end holidays at home, in accordance with the government’s advice to celebrate Christmas and New Year from home.

“With social restrictions during Christmas and New Year celebrations, our customers are becoming more active in using digital platforms to stay connected with those closest to them, or to access online entertainment, such as mobile games. Our customers also rely on the 3 Indonesia network to access mobile games easily and quickly,” explained Chief Technical Officer 3 Indonesia, Desmond Cheung in a press statement, Tuesday (5/1/2021).

Desmond Cheung claimed that one of the independent mobile analytics institutions gave an assessment that Network 3 was the best network for playing mobile games. In addition to Garena Free Fire, 3 Indonesia also noted four other applications that experienced a spike in usage during Christmas and New Year compared to normal days.

Whatsapp usage increased by 20 percent, Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook increased by 13 percent. During the peak hours of New Year’s Eve, which is between 20:00 WIB on 31 December 2021 to 02:00 WIB on 1 January 2021, many of the 3 users use the internet to make video calls via WhatsApp, play mobile games and access social media.

Prior to the increase in data usage, 3 Indonesia had conducted network optimization at hundreds of Points of Interest (POI) in residential areas and crowded points. In addition, 3 Indonesia has also provided a number of additional Cell of Wheels (COW) along the Jakarta-Semarang toll road, such as Kendal Rest Area 1 (Km 360), Kendal Rest Area 2 (Km 379), and Saradan Rest Area (Km 626). . The anticipation has been made to support users’ needs for quality internet during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

“2021 is a very challenging year for all of us, but we must not give up. In the midst of this very challenging period, 3 Indonesia has also added 6,000 BTS 4.5G Pro throughout Indonesia, and we also received an additional 10MHz frequency in the 2300MHz frequency band.”

3 is optimistic that with the presence of a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, the situation will get better. 3 Indonesia claims that it will continue to be committed to expanding and strengthening network coverage with better quality and also continuing to support the government in equitable internet access throughout Indonesia.