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166 SMS text messages sent through O2′s network on New Year’s Eve!

Categories: Announcements, O2, Research
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 at 6:31 PM

Talk about a record! O2 has announced that their network ushered a record-setting 166 million SMS text messages over a 24 hour period that ended 7:30am on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). That works out to a whopping 1,900 text messages sent every single second of the day!

The rush of wireless subscribers sending out celebratory “Happy New Year!” text messages wasn’t exactly unexpected. Last year, we saw wireless networks become overloaded with text messages. The shear volume of text messaging subscribers was enough to delay text messages for several minutes, in some cases even failing to deliver messages.

Still, it’s interesting to see demand for SMS text messages increasing steadily. Let’s hope carriers don’t take this as a reason to hike their text message rates.

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Thanks, kranzy!

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  • bangbang023

    The title is lacking a key word lol. The way the title is now, it would seem as though O2′s network is all but abandoned, which it obviously isn’t.

  • DavidB

    Can you imagine, at a USA price of $.20 each to send, that’s $33 MILLION!!!. And if receiver is also charged? Hope all those folks had sms “bundles” or O2 just raked in some serious cash! Would love to see the USA numbers, would be interesting even to the level of how many from the Times Square area in the hours just before and just after midnight.