In a statement, Telstra says it counted more than double the traffic it would normally see on a Sunday, which equates to around 5.1 million episodes of Game of Thrones or 23 million downloads of Kanye's latest The Life of Pablo album. It wasn't all sunshine and downloads, however, as the volume of traffic reduced speeds in some parts of Australia.

People like Reddit user DrRodneyMckay will have likely played a part in that. Telstra's 4G plans typically offer up to 8 gigabytes of data a month but on Valentine's Day, this customer gobbled more than 421 gigabytes.

Freed from a 1.5 Mbps ADSL broadband connection, DrRodneyMckay claims to have downloaded all 25 seasons of How It's Made, numerous other TV shows and backed up his entire Stream library (all 172 games) to offline storage via his tethered LG G4 (which peaked at 168 Mbps). Not bad for a day's work.