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| Official Mobile Texting Facts & Figures |
2004 Mobile Texting Facts & Figures |
- 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
- In December 2004, 2.4 billion text messages were sent in Britain as the traditional Christmas card was dumped in favour of a seasonal text message.
- Australians sent more than 6 billion text messages in 2004. This equates to 300 text messages for every single man, woman and child. Industry sources say SMS usage has grown by 30 percent a year since the year 2000. This number is set to continue to grow with the introduction of a system, which will allow messages to be sent from landlines.
- 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.
- In its study on U.S. mobile market trends, the Cambridge-based private British research group Analysys, which focuses on telecommunications issues, found that mobile messaging in the United States rose by 106 percent in 2004 and will continue to grow steadily over the next five years. http://www.physorg.com/news7634.html website
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