TELEPHONE TRAFFIC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 12

TELEPHONE TRAFFIC

INTER-ISLAND SERVICE By maintaining a careful check over the six channels for telephone communication between the North and South Islands it has been found that the business is divided into three distinct heavy traffic periods during the working day. Between 9 a.m. and noon 21 per cent of the total day's traffic is handled. There is a lull until two o'clock in the afternoon, when, for the next three hours, another 21 per cent of the full day's work is done. The third busy period, stimulated by the half rate concession from 6 p.m., lasts until 10 p.m. and carries 29 per cent of the day's traffic. Thus, in the three defined periods 71 per cent of tho day's trafficis carried. By this analysis it is seen that while delay inevitably occurs at the busy periods it may bo substantially reduced if calls are made between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, noon and two o'clock in the afternoon and between five and six o'clock in the evening, which constitute the lowest points of traffic density.