UK users send 1,495,525 picture and video messages every week, says the MDA.
The Mobile Data Association’s quarterly research findings for UK mobile phone activity from July - September 2008 show that, year on year, Text and MMS went up by 30 per cent and 20 per cent respectively in the UK in Q3. SMS was up from 4.76bn to 6.58bn while MMS grew from 37.8m to 45.4m.Other findings…
* On average 6.5 billion text messages sent per month
* Over 1.5 billion messages a week or almost 217 million per day
* Britons send 60 million more messages a day compared to the same period in 2007
Steve Reynolds, chairman of the MDA, said: “Our usage figures highlight the UK’s continued enthusiasm and appetite for mobile phones. The mobile landscape is constantly evolving. New mobile phones, with easy to use software, and creative tariffs from the mobile networks, are encouraging people of all ages to use more of their functionality – from music, video and pictures to email communications and now GPS and mapping on the move. The mobile phone has evolved far beyond simple voice and text messaging: it sits at the centre of our lives at home and at work.”
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