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Brits Send 265 Million Texts A Day

Mon, 01 Feb 2010

British mobile phone users sent some 265 million text messages per day in 2009, according to a new report by the Mobile Data Association.

The MDA data, which is based on figures provided by each of the UK’s mobile network operators, shows that 96.8 billion text messages were sent in total last year, up 23 per cent from the 79 billion texts that were sent in 2008.

There was also a 9 per cent rise in the number of picture messages sent last year, with 601 million MMS sent in 2009 compared to 553 million the previous year 2008.

Text messaging traffic was at its busiest last year on Christmas Day (442m SMS) and on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (874m SMS). Brits also sent 4.5 million picture messages on Christmas Day - nearly three times the normal daily average last year.

Steve Reynolds, chairman of the MDA, said the figures indicate that there is still a significant and developing role for text messaging in the UK.

He explained: "These statistics show that even with new social media forms of messaging such as Twitter and Facebook, people are using SMS as a social messaging tool because of its simplicity and ubiquity."

"In a seemingly relentless tide of status updates, tweets and pokes, the UK population’s love affair with mobile messaging for instant, on-the-go communication continues to deepen."

"The majority of mobile phone users know how to quickly send a text message, wherever they happen to be. It will still be some time before the same can be said for other social messaging forms."
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