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

Categories: Research
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 3:37 PM

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.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • imran

    why not?

    If Asia share in world population is 57%

  • MicahH

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