The Mobile River Data Association (MDA) has made public a summary of its latest reputation on the texting habits of the UK universe – saying we like electronic messaging is a bit like saying ‘a fish is keen on water’, but perhaps we didn’t recognize the scale of it before (no pun intended)!
The continued growth of electronic messaging is highlighted by a 2009 daily average of 265 1000000 text messages and 1.6 1000000 painting messages. 2009’s textual matter content total was 96.8 one thousand million, while over 600 million picture messages were sent across the whole thing class.
Seasonal drivers still appear to propel the manipulation of Picture Messaging, with 4.5 million painting messages being sent on Christmas Day itself, while Network Operators’ figures also indicated an upturn in picture electronic messaging during the recent coldness snap.
Assessing the findings of the MDA’s reputation, Rob Bamforth, Principal Analyst at Quocirca, said: “New generation touchscreen handsets and the bundling of SMS messages into many tariffs has made texting easier, and seen its function develop. Now it is not only a convenient medium for a quick chat with friends, but also a way of participating in television voting and raising finances for needy charities. When a powerful call option to military action is presumption, the universe of the UK often turn first base towards their mobile phones.”
Steve Reynolds, MDA Chairman, said: “These statistics show that even with new sociable media forms of electronic messaging such as Twitter and Facebook, citizenry are exploitation SMS as a social messaging instrument because of its simplicity and ubiquitousness. There cadaver a significant and distillery development role for text messaging. In a seemingly relentless lunar time period of condition updates, tweets and pokes, the UK population’s lovemaking matter with mobile electronic messaging for instant, on-the-go communicating continues to deepen.”
In case you love the detail, here are the Q4 2009 Statistical findings
Text Messaging (SMS)
Total figure of text messages (SMS) sent in:
2009 total 96.8 billion 2008 total 78.9 one thousand million 2007 total 56.9 one thousand million
These SMS statistics can be broken down feather as follows in 2009:
Year on class emergence (2009 vs 2008): twenty-three growth Number of text messages sent per twenty-four hours: 265 million
Video and Picture messages (MMS)
Total number of picture messages (MMS) sent in:
2009 sum 601 1000000 2008 sum 553 1000000 2007 total 449 million
These statistics can be broken down as follows in 2009:
Year on year emergence (2009 vs 2008): 9% growth Number of MMS messages sent per day: 1.6 1000000
I think we all need a sit down feather with a nice coldness drinking after that veritable stat attack
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