Canadians sent 61,000 texts per minute in Q1

OTTAWA – During the first three months of 2009, Canadians sent about 88 million text messages per day, or about 7.8 billion in total. That works out to a thumb-numbing 61,000 a minute or, over 1,000 a second. Text messaging volumes have more than doubled each year since inter-carrier text messaging was introduced in Canada in the spring of 2002. Total messages sent in 2008 numbered more than 20.7 billion and Q1 ’09’s pace ran well ahead of the same quarter of last year when we sent a paltry 4.1 billion SMS messages. All figures are according to the Canadian...