Almost 1 billion UK text messages per month

UK text message senders are approaching a landmark figure of one billion messages a month.

Figures for July show 992 million text messages were sent throughout the country.

The figures, supplied by the Mobile Data Association, show a rise of 476 million from the same month last year.

July's figure gives an annual total so far of 6.2 billion, which equates to about 32 million messages a day.

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