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- The first text message (or 'telenote' as it was originally called) was sent on 3rd December 1992 by Neil Papworth to colleagues at Vodafone and said 'Merry Christmas'. The commercial launch of SMS took place in 1995
- 1998 - Interconnect between UK Operators O2, Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile
- The first recorded monthly text message total was 5.4 million in April 1998
- August 2001 was the first month in which over one billion messages were sent in the UK
- December 2002 - 1 billion SMS per day were exchanged globally
- In 2009 over 96 billion messages will be sent throughout the UK, with an average of 269 million messages being sent per day
- 65 million UK subscribers were registered as active on UK networks as of the end of December 2005 of which over 70% sent text messages
- On New Year's Day 2003, the number of text messages sent in one day topped one hundred million for the first time
- Over the Christmas 3-day period 2009, MDA recorded the highest holiday total ever, when 1.08 billion text messages were sent
- Annual SMS totals: 1999 - 1 billion; 2000 - 6.2 billion; 2001 - 12.2 billion; 2002 - 16.8 billion; 2003 - 20.5 billion; 2004 - 26 billion; 2005 - 32 billion; 2006 - 41 billion; 2007 - 56.9 billion; 2008 - 78.9 billion; 2009 96.8 billion
- On average, 11 million messages are currently sent every hour in Britain.
- 72% of women v 70 % of men text regularly (source - ICM Research)
- More than half of mobile phone users aged 18-24 have either sent or received an invitation to a date by text.(Mobile Life Survey)
- More women than men use picture messaging, while men are bigger users of the mobile internet (WAP) (source - Enpocket)
- The first local and mayoral electoral vote in the UK by text message took place on 23rd May 2002
- Amongst the top 10 business users of SMS are recruitment agencies, clubs and bars, internet service providers, couriers, hair salons, dentists and charities.(source - Kapow!)
- The peak hours for texting are between 10.30pm and 11.00pm
- You can send the same text from your mobile to up to 50 people with group texting
- There are a huge range of services that can send you text updates e.g Movie reviews, bank balances, sports, weather.
- 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.
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