Chinese to send 18 bln text messages during Spring Festival

China's mobile phone users might send more than 18 billion text messages during the week-long Spring Festival that runs until January 31, telecom operators said Monday.

Text messaging has become increasingly popular during the festival, the biggest holiday in China. Last Lunar New Year, 17 billion messages were sent, compared with 15.2 billion in 2007, 12.6 billion in 2006 and 11 billion in 2005.

... China's mobile phone population hit 641 million in 2008, up 17 percent from 2007, for a mobile phone penetration rate of 48.5 percent.

Just under 700 billion text messages were sent in China last year, up 18.2 percent year-on-year.

[via China.org]

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