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This Just In: World's Crazy Textin'
Better believe this "Onion-style" headline: the world is going crazy texting...some samples of my blanket statement:-- Asian Growth of SMS: "The outbound SMS volumes in India grew by 200.8 per cent year-on-year to reach 7.39 billion messages in 2003. This is equivalent to 35.8 outbound SMS messages per cellular connection per month," research firm Gartner on Tuesday said. "China...recorded about 55.9 outbound messages per cellular connection per month, while the Philippines recorded a massive 189.4 outbound messages per cellular connection per month, it said.-- Indonesians mobile phone-crazy: 66 percent of Indonesions will check their phones frequently if they had not received SMS or calls for some time. On the use of mobile phones in romance, 42 percent of survey respondents said they called or SMS-ed their loved ones throughout the day.-- Finns favour text messages over postcards: Obvious why.... |
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