The North American Aerospace Defense Command, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is celebrating 60 years of tracking Santa’s trip around the world. Volunteers will also share Santa’s location on Facebook and Twitter.
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Verizon provides the toll-free hotline and call-handling capabilities, as well as its 4G LTE wireless network to help volunteers answer phone calls to the hotline, respond to emails, download apps and track Santa’s progress.
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More than 1,300 volunteers will man the phones to take an expected 120,000 calls from children. Staff at the command center fielded the calls and the operation grew over the years as military and personal technology got more sophisticated.
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NORAD has been tracking Santa’s location for 60 years, and the programme is underwritten by contractors who pay for the equipment. It also has a different game for every day in December leading up to Dec. 25 and a selection of Christmas songs.
Official NORAD Tracks Santa apps are also available in the Windows, Apple and Google Play stores, so parents and children can countdown the days until Santa’s launch on their smart phones and tablets! This year, as jolly Santa is tracked by NORAD’s radars, volunteers will keep an eye out for 23 hours, as well as on Christmas Eve. If children are still awake when Santa arrives, he moves on to other houses.
Eager boys and girls aren’t the only ones around the world counting down until Santa’s arrival – so are Google and Microsoft. During the month of December 2014, the NORAD Tracks Santa website had almost 21.8 million unique visitors from 234 countries and territories.
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“Well, I think it’s a welcome reminder that, while most Americans are at home enjoying Christmas with their families, that our airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines, whether they’re in NORAD or around the world are out there keeping us safe”, Cotton said. “Then we get some slightly older kids who call in on their own or some skeptic teenagers, but typically it’s a father or mother, and the kid asks questions, and you can hear the excitement and the anticipation in their voices”. Be they from New Zealand, Europe, the US or Australia (the lead regions of curious children), all phone calls will be attended to.
