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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See:-
big deal - New Year texts break record, news.telegraph, January 5, 2005

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