Acision: 43 billion text messages sent for the New Year; 23 billion through our systems

According to SMS experts Acision, mobile phone users sent 43 billion text messages to wish their loved ones a happy New Year – of which more than 23 billion were successfully processed through Acision’s systems.

To put numbers in a perspective, Acision said that global SMS traffic over the 2007/2008 New Year period increased by 30% compared to the same period last year.

As expected, the growth was particularly strong in India, where people sent over a billion text messages. The Philippines retained its title as the SMS capital of the world, though. 50 million strong subscribers managed to send 1.39 billion text messages! Suddenly that “200 SMS per day girl” article doesn’t sound that weird, does it?