OTTAWA – Canadian mobile phone customers sent more than 4.3 billion person-to-person text messages in 2006, almost triple the 1.5 billion messages sent in 2005, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Text message volumes peaked in December 2006 at more than 560 million in that month alone, which represents more than 18 million per day. In the first North American initiative of its kind, Canada introduced inter-carrier text messaging in 2002. This allowed customers of Canada's wireless carriers to send SMS (Short Message Service) text messages by simply addressing their message to a recipient's wireless phone number, regardless of...
