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UK sends 11 million text messages an hour
28/01/2010

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.

 
28/01/10   UK SENDS 11 MILLION . .
13/02/09   THE Q4 2008 UK MOBIL . .
29/10/08   THE Q3 2008 UK MOBIL . .
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18/02/08   THE Q1 2008 UK MOBIL . .
05/11/07   ONE BILLION TEXT MES . .
29/01/07   RECORD NUMBERS ACCES . .
18/01/07   41.8 BILLION TEXT ME . .
04/01/07   A RECORD CHRISTMAS A . .
21/12/06   FIRST OFFICIAL PICTU . .