Heads up: 47.2 billion text messages sent in first six months this year

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...