Vodafone, the country’s largest mobile phone company has issued figures for mobile phone use over the two busiest days of the year, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.
Vodafone reported 16.9 million text messages being sent and received on its network alone. Of those texts, two million were sent and received in the last hour of New Year’s Eve.
At an average price of 12c per text, Vodafone handled over €2m worth of texts.
"There was a massive jump in texts as there are more customers on the network now as we reached the two-million customer mark during 2005," said Vodafone spokeswoman Darina Sexton.
The numbers of texts sent and received on Christmas Day on the Vodafone network reached the 11.3m mark, the company said.
The busiest hour for text messaging, as anticipated, was between 11pm and 12 midnight on 31 December, when over two million texts were sent to ring in the New Year.
On 31 December and New Year’s Day, customers using the Meteor network sent and received a total of 14m texts or €1.7m worth of messages.
Meteor spokeswoman Orla Bird said, "The number of text messages on the Meteor network more than doubled. Key to this was our free Meteor to Meteor text service."
During the festive period Meteor customers sent and received over 53m text messages across all networks and sent 10m of these on 31 December and 1 January alone.
On New Year’s Eve, users with the O2 mobile phone network sent 10m texts worth €1.2m in all.
Emma Hynes, from O2, said, "These figures again show that the Irish love to talk and text."
Record texting over Christmas and New Year's period
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