One Billion Text Messages Sent Every Week November 6, 2007

According to the latest stats from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), UK phone users are sending more than 1.2 billion texts every week – that’s more than all the text messages sent in 1999.

For September, text messages in the UK topped 4.8 billion, a 25% jump over the same period in 2006. The MDA has now revised its yearly prediction for texts sent to 52 billion, up from 48 billion. Mike Short, Chairman, the Mobile Data Association, said:

“The continued growth of text volumes remains a source of fascination for us all at the MDA. We have been central in helping to promote the technology from our initial campaigns back in 1998. Today text messaging remains important but as part of a much larger and more complex mobile communications industry.

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.”

Now prepare yourselves for the September Stat Smackdown after the jump.-Martin Lynch

September Stat Smackdown

4,825,000,000 per month

1,200,000,000 per week

173,000,000 per day

14,400,000 per hour (based upon most texts being sent in 12 hour period)

239,000 per minute

4,000 every second

70 text messages per person per month in the UK*

*Based on 69million registered devices in the UK (Netsize Guide 2007)

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