In 2007…

ITV brought premium back with Dancing on Ice, Blyth Valley Housing used SMS to communicate with their tennants, Gizmo launched a free text messaging service, and we learned that you can find out your Visa has expired by text.

In 2006…

Newcastle Council came into the 21st century and started texting, MMS airline ticketing arrived in Germany, the SMS World Cup was announced, and someone texted a stranger, and ended up marrying them!

On this day in 2006…

You could MMS your baby’s ultrasound scan to your friends, we found out that lovers in the UK sent 120 Million Valentine’s messages, Google.com was banned by Hutchinson 3g UK just as Sony Ericsson was putting it in their handset menu and Ewan was contemplating buying a normal phone.

In 2007…

Imified still rocked, All Free Calls launched in the UK and Nokia is going to tell you when the E61i is available.

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In 2007…

We found out that Stuff magazine is loving ShoZu, Ewan was testing Jaxtr and has had enough of the T-Mobile UK system, and the HalfGeeks were loving the LG Shine.

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On this day in 2006…

The people in Uganda found out it was time to vote by text, mTouche licenses were suspended in Singapore, the you won the lottery scam was resurrected again, this time by text and we discovered 89% of brands planned to market by text.

In 2007…

Apple said that mobile companies are clueless, T-mobile UK was nailed, Ewan was ready to shoot the guy on the train with him, and we all wondered how you pronounce Nokia.

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In 2007…

We had some problems with Good Mobile on Orange, Phones4U was winding up Ewan’s brother, there was a text scam about winning a million dollars and we learned that Tower Bridge can track your journey across it via Bluetooth.

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In 2006…

We found out text messaging tax proposals were starting to be put forward, there was a 15% increase in Valentine’s Day traffic in Taiwan, three towns in Nigeria got brought into the mobile world by receiving coverage they won in a competition and Blackberry had a firm grip on the mobile PDA world.

In 2007…

We learned that 3 started to dive into the world of social networking, Mobile music accounted for 40% of digital revenues, we got introduced to the Sony Micro PC VAIO VGN-UX1 and that there still aren’t any good parties at 3GSM.

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As some of you may have noticed, at the bottom of each post there are some “On this day…” links reminiscing about what has happened in years past.

We here at SMS Text News like a bit of nostalgia, so each day we’re going to post a brief summary of what happened.

On this day in 2007…

Mobile Porn isn’t quite on par with Ringtones yet

Ringtones and music will always take a bigger slice of the mobile content market than games or erotica, according to an adult content aggregator.
Blake Fayling of Brick House Mobile said the introduction of age verification systems had made it easier to sell what the industry calls “erotica” or adult content - and you’d call mobile porn - in Europe.

Alex caught this one and, no doubt, like me, thought… hmmm… ringtones BIGGER than porn? Well, with the age ‘thing’, yes, I can understand that viewpoint.

And it was Valentine’s Day, obviously