UK has gone text message mad

One billion messages in August. What do they find to write about?...

By Julian Goldsmith, 19 September 2001 11:35

NEWS The UK public's passion for sending each other text messages has reached such heights that for the first time ever, one billion messages have been sent in a single month. According to the Mobile Data Association, 1.05 billion messages were sent by UK users in August, averaging 35 million messages a day. The association believes that SMS traffic will rise to 20 billion text messages per month by the end of the year.

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