OTTAWA – If you were wondering why everyone these days seems to constantly have their heads down while walking, you can likely thank, or blame, text messaging. The CWTA says that Canadians sent 47.2 billion person-to-person text messages in the first six months of 2012, representing more than 60% of the 78 billion messages sent in all of 2011. In June of this year alone, text messages totaled 8 billion, or approximately 268 million messages per day. Canadians also sent 264.4 million MMS messages in the first half of the year.
CWTA’s text messaging statistics
– Canadians sent over 23.8 billion person-to-person text messages in Q2 2012.
– More than 8 billion person-to-person text messages were sent in June 2012 alone, which represents an average of approximately 267.8 million messages per day.
– Total text messages sent in 2011 numbered 78 billion, up from the 56.4 billion messages sent in 2010.
– In Q2 2012, MMS messages sent totaled 141 million. As of June 2012, Canadians are sending an average of 1.5 million MMS messages per day.
– Total person-to-person MMS messages sent in 2011 numbered 326.7 million.
– Canadians sent and received a total of 607 million text messages using Common Short Codes in Q2 2012.
– A total of 2.8 billion Common Short Code messages were sent and received by Canadians in 2011, up from the 2.3 billion messages in 2010.
