Brief: Swiss break record, 62 million text messages in 48 hours
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 5:42 PM PST In Research

From December 24 to the end of Christmas day the people of Switzerland sent over 62 million text messages, breaking the world record, which they set last year with “only” 57 million texts.
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that’s indeed pretty hefty for a country of only 7.5 million. that’s about 8.2 messages per person (including babies and seniors) within 48h, hehe.
That is nothing compared to Portugal where 10 million people sent 977 million sms…
Here is the link translated into english via google translator:
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( if i copy paste here the link is considered spam by the system…
Search for: “TMN, Vodafone e Optimus somam 977 milhões sms pelo Natal” in google and translate it!