UK sends 11 million text messages an hour
London, UK, January 28th 2010: The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has welcomed new evidence of the UK’s ever growing appetite for mobile messaging, illustrated in its latest report.
Covering Text Messaging (SMS) and Picture and Video Messaging (MMS) activity for 2009/10, the mobile trade body’s report contains statistics aggregated from each of the UK’s Mobile Network Operators.
The continued growth of messaging is highlighted by a 2009 daily average of 265 million text messages and 1.6 million picture messages. 2009’s text message total was 96.8 billion, while over 600 million picture messages were sent across the whole year.
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15th January
Following the successful use of charity short codes for the Children in Need appeal (see news story here), text donations are now available for the Disasters Emergency Committee's Haiti appeal.
Operated via UK Aggregator Mobile Interactive Group, you can donate £5 by texting GIVE to 70077 from your UK mobile phone. £5 goes to DEC. Each participant pays £5 plus their standard network charge. |
BBC Radio 1's Picture Message Day, held on Friday 11th December 2009, has been judged a massive success.
Produced as part of the Radio 1 Access All Areas week, listeners were invited to send in pictures of themselves, taken on their camera phones. With the active support of the Mobile Network Operators, who enabled all picture messages sent to the Radio 1 shortcode 81199 to be free for the 24 hour period, message traffic hit record levels. Some of the results can be viewed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mmsday/
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