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OMG! Texting Smashes All Records
San Francisco Business Times reports: Verisign delivered the equivalent of 26 mobile messages for each person on earth in the first half of 2009.
That’s 178.8 billion messages, the Mountain View company said Wednesday.
June 25, the day both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, VeriSign’s network broke two other records, delivering 1.2 billion mobile messages in 24 hours and also 102 million messages between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Pacific time.
Text messages have become and important and ubiquitous tool for personal communication, the company said.
During the second quarter of 2009, the company handled an average of 1.04 billion messages a day, also a record. That’s up 12 percent from the average daily amount in the first quarter, and up 83 percent from the second quarter a year earlier.
VeriSign delivers text messages for 700 carriers in 200 nations, connecting to some 3 billion wireless subscribers.
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