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Apple’s iOS 5 release caused ‘highest ever’ Internet traffic spike in UK

Sunday, October 16, 2011 · 3:14 pm · 8 Comments

“Apple’s release of iOS 5 caused ‘the highest ever traffic’ over the UK broadband network, BT has confirmed,” Giles Turnbull reports for Cult of Mac.

Turnbull reports, “John Petter, managing director of BT Retail, said: ‘Over the last two nights we’ve seen the highest ever traffic levels over BT Retail’s broadband network in the UK, with unprecedented demand for Apple’s new iPhone operating system.’”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Dow C." for the heads up.]

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Tags: Internet, Internet traffic, iOS 5, iphone, UK

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8 Comments

russ

Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 4:53 pm · Reply

On the other hand, Android ice cream sandwich caused the biggest ‘meh’ ever seen on BT Internet. It was buried between two tweets originating from a RIM message that had been held up in Slough since last Monday.
- Mike
  
  Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 4:57 pm · Reply
  
  Lol
- qka
  
  Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 10:13 pm · Reply
  
  I’d prefer an Android Screwball (another frozen treat from my childhood, noted for the gumball at the bottom of the cone).
zubonhebi

Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 10:13 pm · Reply

I installed iOS5 on a 3GS iphone last night and it is like getting a new phone. Everything is faster and the new features are great.
- Steve
  
  Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 10:54 pm · Reply
  
  I installed mine on my 3GS on Friday. The features were great. Although, it did take about 3 hours. The reason being is because I kept getting this unknown error where it said “Failed to verify backup due to an unknown error”. So, the upgrading process kind of infurriated me but when it was finally over, I was quite satisfied with what apple had done.
Fed Up

Monday, October 17, 2011 - 7:56 am · Reply

I installed it on my 3gs only to find out half my apps disappeared from iTunes even though I transferred everything from the phone, updated all of the apps and synced before IOS upgrade.

No problem I thought, will just re-download from app store, only to find out most of the apps don’t work on IOS 5.

Guess who’s reverting back to IOS 4……ooops, iTunes doesn’t even let you do that with restore…..thank God there is Google.
- Tag you're it
  
  Monday, October 17, 2011 - 9:14 am · Reply
  
  You are kidding, right? All the apps work with ios 5 and if you backed up your phone correctly everything would be there. Don’t bring your crappy google fanboy b.s. here. It’s not welcome.
- Jack Hansen
  
  Monday, October 17, 2011 - 9:32 am · Reply
  
  Christ dude if you cant get work a iphone God help you.