Text Record Smashed For New Year

[Zee007]

New Year revellers smashed the record for the most texts ever sent in a day, said the Mobile Data Association (MDA).

A thumb-numbing 111 million SMS messages were sent on all four main UK mobile networks between midnight 31 December and midnight 1 January.

The new record beats last year's 102 million by 8%, and is twice the volume sent on an average day.

But some well-wishes may well have never received their messages because of network traffic.

Many may have failed to turn up or arrived hours later, according to mobile software firm Sicap.

The company sent out four researchers onto the streets with mobiles to test the main UK mobile networks - Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and O2.

Each sent a text message from the same location in London, at midnight, but only three actually made it to their final destination.

The fastest took 16 minutes, but on average the texts took two hours and two minutes to find their way through the networks

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[Scorpion]

The contries gone text crazy !!

[GreyBeard]

my son sent me one at 3 seconds to midnight, orange to orange, and it delivered 5 seconds after midnight, which amazed me, so i replied within a minute, and it took just over two hours to deliver! can i have the researcher fee?