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Stats:

  • 4.2 billion peer-to-peer text messages were sent in March 2010. This represents a 10.5% increase over the last reported December total of 3.8 billion messages.
  • The total number of person-to-person text messages sent during the first quarter of 2010 was 12.1 billion messages which already represents more than one third of the 2009 year total of 35.3 billion.
  • In March 2010 Canadians sent an average of 135.4 million messages per day.
  • In March 2010 an average of 183 text messages were sent per subscriber per month. This is up from the 165 text messages sent per subscriber per month in December 2009.
  • Canadians sent and received a total of 538 million text messages from short codes in Q1 of 2010 up from 536 million messages sent and received in Q4 of 2009.

 

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Mobile Originated Text Messages in Canada - Quarterly (2006-2010)
year Mobile Originated Text Messages in Canada - Yearly (2002-2009)

 

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For more information / media inquiries please contact:

Marc Choma, Director Communications.
613-233-4888 x207
613-233-2032
mchoma@cwta.ca




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