Using the platform
Charting
Monthly Traffic
4 min
monthly traffic provides graphical views of how usage changes from month to month across your sim estate charts are available as both total usage across all sims average usage per sim this allows you to distinguish between growth driven by sim volume and growth driven by increased usage per device traffic types covered monthly traffic charts include data sms mo (mobile originated) sms moip (mobile originated over ip) sms mt (mobile terminated) voice each traffic type is displayed separately, allowing clearer comparison across billing periods zone breakdown usage occurring outside the base zone is split out by zone this makes it easier to identify emerging roaming patterns unexpected out of zone behaviour changes in geographic usage over time group selection charts can be filtered to display all groups individual groups this allows comparison between specific configurations or customer segments graphs displaying monthly data, sms, and voice usage trends, with totals and per sim views and out of zone breakdowns when to use monthly traffic this chart is useful when reviewing usage trends over multiple billing periods identifying sustained increases or decreases comparing performance across groups monitoring roaming behaviour over time for detailed monthly billing breakdowns, refer to the monthly traffic summary report