Mobile users in the
UK are sending around 1.2 billion
text messages per week, a 25 per cent rise from 2006, according to new figures from the
Mobile Data Association (MDA).
The MDA said
British texters sent nearly 5 billion
messages during September from 69 million registered
handsets - five times more than in the whole of 1999.
Mike Short, the MDAs
Chairman, said more
businesses were turning to mobiles while the cost of
messaging was ever-reducing.
"The UK text volumes show no real signs of abating and the UK sits within the top six of the global league of countries
sending text messages," Short said in a
statement .
"While the trend towards
operators offering 'all-you-can-eat'
tariffs increases, this will
act as a catalyst for consumers' passion for all things mobile," he added.