June 23, 2003
UK Text Message Growth Stalls in Early 2003
In had to level off somewhere, we have been so used to record breaking months in text messaging in the UK. "Growth in the number of SMS sent by British mobile phone users appears to have stalled in the first half of 2003, according to figures released by the Mobile Data Association on Monday.
The average daily number of text messages sent by Britons in May was 55 million, unchanged from April and down from 56 million sent in March, according to MDA data.
And MDA forecasts indicate little expectation of further growth for the rest of the year. The MDA is targeting 20 billion texts for all of 2003, which works out to 54.8 million per day, or just over one for every mobile phone in the country.
The MDA collects data from Britain's four network operators, Vodafone Group Plc, mmO2 Plc, Orange SA and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile", reports Reuters.
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