Really? Back in the 2000s and 2010s I used to get a whole bunch of mass texts from friends, family, and random people, wishing me a happy new year. Nobody does that anymore.
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 months ago
I have never heard of this before
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 months ago
People calling each other at new years was a thing in the before times when texting was non-existent, expensive or not widespread. People would call each other usually on land lines and caused a lot of stress to the network. It could take hours to get through. When mobile phones became a thing, people tried to be trendy and call from a party, leading to total collapse of the local cell network.
Later when texting became the norm, it would also be easily overloaded and texts could take a while to get through. These days since everything goes through the internet, I wouldn’t expect there to be any issues. The internet can handle sudden increases much better.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They usually like bragged about it on TV afterwards: 1.6 billion SMS (texts) was sent tonight!
const_void@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Got an article that explains how this works? I’ve never heard of this before.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE