Did you know that...
- The first text message was sent in 1992
- On New Year's Day 2003, the number of text messages sent in one day topped one hundred million for the first time, and on New Year 's Day 2004, the daily total reached 111 million messages
- On New Year's Day 2005, the highest daily total ever recorded by the Mobile Data Association was reached, when 133 million messages were sent
- The Mobile Data Association predicts that 30 billion text messages will be sent during 2005
- The first local and mayoral electoral vote in the UK by text message took place on 23rd May 2002
- There are a huge range of services that can send you text updates e.g Movie reviews, bank balances, sports, weather, stock quotes.
- The Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP became the first UK Prime Minister to use text message technology to talk directly to the people on 25th November 2004, answering questions submitted in advance by text message from members of the public as well as in real-time in a mobile phone chat-room, transmitted live from No. 10 Downing Street.
- Text messaging is the most widely used mobile data service on the planet, with 72% of all mobile phone users worldwide or 1.9 Billion out of 2.7 Billion phone subscribers at end of 2006 being active users of the Short Message Service (SMS).
- SMS is particularly popular in Europe, Asia (excluding Japan), Australia and New Zealand.
- Canadians sent more than 4.3 billion person-to-person text messages in 2006, more than doubling the previous year's volume of 1.5 billion. Canadians now send over 560.4 million text messages per month - that's more than 18 million text messages each day.
- The most common application of the service is person-to-person messaging, but text messages are also often used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and services for mobile phones, or participating in contests.
- Short Messaging Service was invented during the 1980s as a method of communication for engineers building the mobile network. Since its introduction in 1995 it has taken the world by storm.
- 95% of all text messages are delivered within 10 seconds.
- 23% of world-wide mobile users use SMS more than once a day.
- On average, 3 million messages are sent every hour in Britain.
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