Italy’s school shutdown is driving a surge in Internet traffic as kids turn to online video games to stave off boredom.
With schools, shops and restaurants closed in an attempt to limit Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak, the amount of data passing through Telecom Italia SpA’s national network has surged by more than two-thirds in the past two weeks, the company said.
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