British people like sending text messages a lot
According to the BBC report, British people like to send text messages a lot, according to the last year statistics published by a famous magazine in the UK, it shows British people have sent nearly 100 billion mobile phone short messages last year, this amount equal to every hour they send 11 million text messages. According to the British Mobile Data Association statistics, the British people sent 265 million text messages last year every day, They were not just send words text, they also sent 1.6 million texts which contains pictures or videos .
As usual, there has a high peak of the mobile phone text on Christmas Day, the total of 874 million text messages and 4.5 million multimedia messages were sent by British people. British Mobile Data Collect Association collected every British cell phone service network business information, in 2009, a total of 96.8 billion text messagesnbsp;were 18 billion more than 2008. It was increased 23%, and the multimedia messages increases 9%.
Industry experts said, touch screen mobile phones increase the input of the convenience of text messages, many cell phone contract includes huge amount of free SMS, and it also push the high volume of the SMS even further, probably this one is the biggest reason.Analysts said, mobile phone short messages can increase the communication with your friends, it can promote the relationship between you and your friends. It also can let you participate the TV program activities. In addition, you can vote to charities as well.
Mobile data association chairman Steve Reynolds said, quot;these statistics in the emergence of new social media environment such as Twitter and Facebook, British people still use mobile phone short messages this basic function, as a contact instrument with others, mobile phone messages have simple, fast and some other good characteristics.quot;