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More Than 40 Billion SMS Messages in 2006

Filed in archive Mobile Technologies by tom on January 28, 2007

The Mobile Data Association has announced that with the number of SMS messages sent topping 4 billion in December, the UK has seen more than 41.8 billion SMS messages sent during the year.
Person-to-person textslinks sent across the UK GSM network operators throughout the last month of the year show a growth of 38% on the December 2005 figure of 3.1 billion, and represent an average of 138 million messages per day. On Christmas Day this leapt to 205 million texts, an average of 8 million per hour, with the figure for New Year's Day 2007 even higher reaching a record breaking 214 million, the highest daily total ever recorded by the MDA.
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