Orange Network: To Avoid Overload, New Equipment Installed

A network congestion occurs when too many people phone simultaneously or when the data traffic is too high. This new equipment operated by MT for about a week, is expected to handle a larger number of network traffic both in terms of calls, SMS and data (data), especially when increasing sudden and extreme traffic. Remember that Mauritius has this year exceptional emergency situations where Mauritians were likely to contact their loved ones at the same time, causing saturation of the mobile network of the incumbent operator. This situation lasted for 2:30 February 13, 2013, day of flooding caused by torrential rains that had fallen on the whole island. Of Orange subscribers had experienced that day communication difficulties, a lot of people trying to make calls simultaneously had caused a saturation of the Orange mobile network.

The second case of saturation of the mobile network had lasted half hour on April 3, the day occurred the very serious accident in Sorèze involving a bus of the CNT, making ten killed and forty wounded. A substantial increase in calls and SMS was recorded from 10 hours that day, causing saturation of voice and SMS services up to 10 h 30. Subscribers, having learned of the tragic news of the accident Sorèze, tried to call relatives or friends to get their news, thinking they were part of the victims, even deaths, in this drama. Several passengers on the bus Blue rugged line of the CNT had tried to contact their relatives. The operator explained that the communication in the area of the accident, namely straw and Port-Louis, was the most affected by this problem because of network saturation of calls and SMS spent in other areas . The service had been restored to 11 h.

The Subscriber Database Management System should reduce such risks, according to the operator. The commissioning of the new equipment, says one, is in the context of an overall plan to enhance the regular mobile network, in line with the growth of subscribers and the steady increase in the use of services data (internet and social networks). Orange has about 766,000 subscribers to date.

's decision to replace the equipment was switched on last year. Talks were thus committed supplier of Mauritius Telecom, Alcatel Lucent, during the last quarter of 2012 in order to identify the best solution for the Orange mobile network.