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China sends 12.5bn SMS wishes
08/02/2006 14:27 - (SA)
Beijing - China's love for mobile text messaging was at its peak during the Lunar New Year holiday when about 12.6 billion messages were sent during the eight-day period, state press reported on Wednesday.
The huge number of New Year greetings meant that each mobile phone user in China sent an average 30 messages during the holiday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The flurry of messages brought in about 1.2 billion yuan in revenues for China's mobile telephone companies, the report added.
China had about 393 million mobile phone users at the end of 2005, with many of them only recently discovering the convenience of text messaging services and their lower costs when compared to telephone calls, it said.
The numbers of text messages sent in China has grown about 300 times since 2000. Last year some 304.6 billion text messages were sent in China, up from 217.7 billion in 2004, the report said.
- AFP
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