British Send a Billion Text Messages per Week
The trend to use one’s cell phone for things beside talking is surely prevelent in the United Kingdom where Brits are now sending more than one billion text messages per week.
The huge amount of texts is actually an increase of 25% over a staggering amount from 2006. Today, the same amount of text messages are sent in a week as were sent in the entire year of 1999.
According to the Mobile Data Association, the British will send 52 billion text messages this year which surpasses the 42 - 48 billion that were projected by the organization. Amazingly, the UK ranks only sixth in the world in total text messages sent per capita.
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