Karachi: New Year increases the traffic of short messaging service (SMS) up to 1.20 billion. Talking to media, officials of mobiles companies said that more than billion SMSes have been generate in the evening of 31st December of every year, and the ratio of exchanging the SMS and MMS increases every year. They also said that the customers who belong to any network make Calls, SMS and MMS to greet their relatives and friends on New Year occasion.
Most of the mobile phone companies also suspended their regular packages because of heavy traffic of SMS and Calls and earn a most of it charges from customer on this New Year occasion. The occasions when the mobile companies earn maximum revenue from customer is Eid-Ul-Fitar, Eid-Ul-Azha and New Year but Government suspended the Mobile service on these occasions except New Year.
Mobile companies and people take a long breath after the announcement of Interior Minister Rehman Malik that network is not shut down on New Year.