UK New Years texting record
p2pnet.net News:- SMS is a big deal in the UK and people brought in January 1 with a record 133 million mobile phone messages.
This broke the previous texting record by more than 20 million, says the news.telegraph.
"Between midnight on Dec 31 and midnight on Jan 1 Britain’s five main mobile phone networks dealt with twice the usual volume of messages," it states, going on:
"According to the Mobile Data Association, an industry body that promotes texting, a record 25 billion texts were sent on mobile phones in Britain last year. That figure is equivalent to 68 million messages a day – more than one a day for every man, woman and child in the country."
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big deal - New Year texts break record, news.telegraph, January 5, 2005
January 6th, 2005 at 6:36 am
If it’s at 10 pence apiece (just guessing, though), then there’s a few companies laughing all the way to the bank!
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