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SMS SWALK 4 Valentines Day?

Independent market analysts Datamonitor have predicted a 59% increase in text messaging today as people use the increasingly popular medium to send Valentines greetings, with 67 million messages expected instead of the normal daily average of 42 million.
Over 70% of the population is now thought to have mobiles, and while text messaging is popular across the age ranges, it is most popular with those aged 10-29, who would usually send an average of 3 messages per day. Today this group is forecast by Datamonitor to send 5.
Datamonitor: www.datamonitor.com
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