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Today, as you're well aware, is World Statistics Day, and to commemorate the occasion, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has released a statistical report (PDF) that shows just how hyper-connected the world is today. Perhaps the most intriguing statistics, however, are those pertaining to global mobile subscriptions and text-messaging trends. According to ITU, the total number of text messages sent across the world is expected to reach 1.6 trillion this year -- meaning that roughly 200,000 texts are sent every second. Leading the SMS pack are the U.S. and the Philippines, who combined to account for 35-percent of all texts sent in the world. The report also estimates that about 90-percent of the world now has access to mobile networks, and that 5.3 billion people will have a mobile subscription by the end of this year.
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Subscribe to commentsgeorgeOct 20th 2010 8:42PM
Knock yourself out sending text messages if that is your thing. I purchased a cell phone specifically without text capability. I realized I was losing the face to face quality experience by relying on texting to communicate. Wireless is good for those necessary info calls and perhaps emailing but nothing is as good as face to face especially with those to whom I love. I'll choose personal interaction everytime. I actually save up special topics so I can spend personal time with friends and family discussing those topics. It is much more meaningful reading expressions and body language when a comment is made not to mention security from the internet.
AgFang35Oct 20th 2010 9:14PM
And yet, here you are, posting on the internet.
GAbeOct 20th 2010 9:25PM
@(Unverified)
Get with the program. You lost your face to face interaction the moment you signed up for a cell phone plan.
Michael SandersOct 20th 2010 11:21PM
If they like text-messaging, they'll absolutely love CW (continuous wave), where you use a single key, or switch, to interupt a carrier signal, encoding information using the Interantional Morse Code. We've gone from voice to text, so Morse Code is the next stop, followed by smoke siganls. I told a friend once, that intelligence would stop at the year 2000, then we would start regressing at an accelerated clip, until we met Jesus, at the central epoch. Then, we would have to explain what we'd learned, along the way.
catquickOct 20th 2010 11:36PM
200,000 texts per second? What bunk! No one can type that fast!!
KenOct 21st 2010 5:46AM
I arranged with Verison not to allow text messages into my cell phone and my answering message informs readers that I do not accept text messages.
And I think that drivers who text while driving should face the same penalties as people who DUI.
KenOct 21st 2010 5:48AM
I arranged with Verizon not to allow text messages into my cell phone
and my answering message informs readers that I do not accept text
messages.
I think that drivers who text while driving should face the same
penalties as people who DUI.