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This Christmas and New Year will see a bumper crop of text and picture messages as friends and family share their season’s greetings according to UK Mobile Network Operator Orange.
Last festive season was a record year for Orange with more than 100 million text messages and more than 1 million picture messages being sent by customers on Christmas Day. This year, the numbers are expected to be even higher. Christmas Day is expected to be the busiest for picture messages with around 1.1 million photos of gifts, trees and turkeys!
New Year’s Eve is also expected to break all records with more than 120million text messages likely to be sent. Last year saw 106million texts and almost 1 million picture messages celebrating the start of 2009.
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
