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New Year's Revelers Smash One-Day Text Record in U.K.

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 5, 2006 - 7:00am.
London - According to a new report by the Mobile Data Association (MDA), more than 165 million text messages were sent in the U.K. between midnight Dec. 31, 2005, and midnight Jan. 1, 2006 -- an average of more than 6.9 million SMS messages every hour. The MDA said it was the highest daily total on record. The total number of person-to-person texts sent across local GSM networks on New Year's Day grew by a remarkable 24% compared to the 133 million texts sent over the same period last year. The MDA predicted that SMS figures would continue to rise this year to reach an annual total of more than 36.5 billion text messages -- an average of 3 billion per month and 100 million per day.
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