US To Top The Charts In Holiday SMS
Airwide Solutions has announced their forecast for this year’s New Years messaging bonanza. The US is set to lead the pack in the Western World, with 730 million messages to be sent to ring in the new year. The UK comes in close behind with 280 million, roughly 4.5 per person.
The Eastern World, however, makes us look like a joke. Regardless of the Chinese New Year being later in the year, Airwide is guessing that China will beat us all out. A typical day in China has 1.6 BILLION (with a ‘B’) messages going back and forth. The Swiss, apparently, do more messages per person, followed closely by Greece.
Interestingly, the French seem to send about the same number of messages as any other day during the holidays.
I still say that this is the year that the SMS greeting is passe. Let’s see those MMS fly around. Surely you can come up with a fun photo to send to everyone in your phonebook?
I totally wanna see those MMS greetings fly this new years eve too. But I can already see the headlines on 2nd January - “UK mobile operators swamped with NYE picture messages that took XX hours to deliver”. Come on lets have a bet on what XX will be? My guess is 14 hours.
In fact I think everyone should log on here how long it takes to send SMS or MMS on NYE.
Posted by Steve Procter on December 21st, 2007 at 5:43 pm.i stopped sending mms as vodafone started to charge for them.
Posted by se fanboy on December 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 am.i might change over to 3 when my contract is up.