Penza, 16 February 2012. PenzaNews. 4 150 thousand short text messages that is 30 % more than an average indicator was sent by subscribers of “Megafon” of the Penza region on St. Valentine’s day.

According to Olesya Postnyh, PR-manager of the Penza Office of Volga region branch of OJSC “Megafon”, technical specialists of the company performed necessary spadework by holiday, having analyzed previous year experience and made the forecast of network loading.

“As the result of successful preparation more than 13.5 million Volga region subscribers of “Megafon” made 35.4 million calls, have sent more than 38 million SMS with declarations of love and congratulations without any problems that is 25 % more than average daily indicator. The quantity of MMS with “Valentine Cards” exceeded “every day” indicator 3 times,” she specified.

The spokeswoman paid attention that the more popular St. Valentine’s day is the fewer congratulatory SMS are sent on February 14.

“It proves that today people prefer to congratulate sweethearts and relatives personally and to give gifts from hand to hand,” Olesya Postnyh underlined.