New Delhi, April 14 -- Since the lockdown in Italy, WhatsApp witnessed a 20% year-on-year increase in the number of messages and calls, and Microsoft saw 100% growth in usage of enterprise productivity applications. In Spain Telefonica's Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, Masmovil and Euskaltel say that IP network traffic had increased by 40%, while mobile had increased 50% for voice and 25% for data.

Sharing these data is Kishor Panpaliya, VP of Americas and APAC of Enea Openwave. Adding more to the data, Panpaliya says that his company Enea Openwave's analysis showed that in Italy peak throughput on the mobile network increased by 80 - 90% in the first few weeks of lockdown. In Spain, during the first week of the lockdown, the mobile network ...