August Texting Again Breaks U.K Records

 

Contributing to the record total were the text counts taken on the days GSCE and A-Level results were released 137 million messages sent on 17th August (A-level) and 136 million messages for 24th August (GSCE)

 

The first time over 1 billion texts were sent in one month was August 2001, with a total of 1.05 billion, or around 35 million messages per day on average.The MDA’s landmark announcement five years ago reported that figures had almost doubled from the previous year and with the total for 2006 an incredible 2.5 billion higher it categorically proves that text messaging is not just  the domain of the nation’s youth but is now firmly embedded within British culture.

 

Since then, year on year comparisons for the month of August show an interesting snapshot of the unprecedented growth of this form of communication, no doubt attributable to improvements in technology, interconnect between the Network Operators and the nation’s increased SMS awareness and expertise -1.05 billion messages a month in August 2001, 1.4 billion for August 2002, 1.7 billion during August 2003, 2.1 billion a month in August 2004 and 2.7 billion for August last year. In August 1998, the year that the MDA began collating and issuing monthly UK SMS statistics,a mere 11.1 million messages were sent, 105 million less than the August 2006 daily average figure of 117 million!