UK mobile users send over 200 million texts a day!
The latest report by the Mobile Data Association has shown that UK mobile phone users send on average 217 million text messages a day, up from an average of 157 million during the same period of last year.
This means that over 6.5 billion text messages are sent a month by UK mobile users and the number of multimedia messages, such as picture and video texts has also risen by 20%, up to an average of 1.5 million a day.
The survey, which was conducted in Q3 of this year (between July to September), tracked the amount and type of text messages that were sent from UK based mobile phones. The Mobile Data Association went on to add that the increase of messages sent compared to last year, was a result of the cheap text message bundles being offered by network providers.
The report also showed that 16.9 million people accessed the internet on their mobile phones during September; this was down compared with August, which saw 17.1 million users access the mobile internet, though this is probably due to people accessing the latest sporting results from the Olympic Games.