Over 100 Billion Texts Sent Across The UK

Text messages leapt to a remarkable 2.7 billion in July, marking the highest ever total, according to the latest figures released by the Mobile Data Association (MDA).

Person to person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators during July showed an increase of 23.5% on the total sent during the same period in 2004, with 87 million messages being sent per day, the highest daily figure recorded to date.

The MDA revealed that with addition of July’s good performance, more than 100 billion text messages have now been sent across the UK.

The strong growth carries on from June, which saw a total of 86.7 million messages sent on average per day throughout the month, topping 2.6 billion messages in total (see Text Usage Continues To Rise Throughout June).

The MDA showed person to person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators in May to be up by 23.5% on the total sent during the same period in 2004.

Mobile Data Association: 01922 419600 www.mda-mobiledata.org