Originally Posted by SuddenImpulse:
“There won't be any evidence. It does not happen.”
Clearly. Turning a network "off" and having it overload have the same result so it would be self-defeating to do that.
The SMS service has been designed to operate in moments of spare capacity on the network. Whereas calls, for obvious reasons, needs instantaneous capacity. What would happen in previous years is that if a cell site reached the limit of how many phones it could support, other mobiles would lose contact with the cell and either have no signal or be de-registered from that cell etc.
What can also happen is that while people are making calls your phone is unable to send the text until a moment of spare capacity then the cell will take it and forward it on until the end cell has spare capacity to send it.
I think the problem won't be as bad as previous years as clearly the operators have upgraded their networks to handle 3G and mobile internet in normal usage which people will use less on NYE so there is more capacity for those calls and texts.