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first SMS sent
The first short message service was sent by a 22 year old test engineer for the Sema Group. The message was Merry Christmas. -
0.4 text messages
Customers in 1995 sending on average only 0.4 messages per GSM customer per month.[ -
35 users
The end of 2000, the average number of messages per user reached 35. -
Messaging today
Today text messaging is the most widely used mobile data service, with 74% of all mobile phone users worldwide or 2.4 billion out of 3.3 billion phone subscribers at end of 2007 being active users of the Short Message Service. -
Other countries today
Finland, Sweden and Norway, over 85% of the population use SMS