First text message sent:
December, 1992
SMS launched commercially in UK: 1995
Total text messages sent in the UK:
1999 1 billion
2002 16.8 billion
2006 41.8 billion
Average sent per day in 1999:
2.74 million
Average sent per hour in 2006:
4.77 million
Total sent on New Year’s Day, 2007:
214 million
All figures for the United Kingdom.
Source: Mobile Data Association (www.text.it)
