Interesting Stat: Close to 80% of text messages sent and received are from Asia

Posted by Stefan on Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 3:37 pm under Research

Considering that a third of the world’s population lives in Asia I’m not surprised about the fact that 78.9% of text messages sent and received originated from the region. That is 1.5 trillion messages. Think about it.

[Via: Textually]


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    • 3 Responses to “Interesting Stat: Close to 80% of text messages sent and received are from Asia”

    • imran says:
      January 5th, 2008 at 12:57 am

      why not?

      If Asia share in world population is 57%

    • Joakim Hilj says:
      January 5th, 2008 at 6:16 am

      We see similar stats with our mobile news service, Mobispine (http://www.mobispine.com)

      Lots of our current users come from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran etc.

      So, Asia rocks basically

    • MicahH says:
      January 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

      I don’t think MidEast is considered part of Asia. But both of those areas do a ton of mobile traffic.

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