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02/14/05

300 million text messages over cell phones 1 city 1 night!

Filed under: China Statistics, T Mobile Text Message — timwang @ 11:03:19 pm

According to the newest statistics, there were over 275,880,000 text messages generated across the Shanghai mobile network on the Chinese New Year's eve (Feb. 8th). This number indicates the mobile communication service providers in Shanghai made over 30 million RMB (5 million CAD$) in cash just over instant messaging in one night! (Senders pay 10 cents per message in China.)

Xinhua news net indicates the total amount of text messages over mobile devices in China within the 7 days of new years holiday should reach 10 billion! The amount of text messages transmitted over the cell phones in the year 2004 is 217.7 billion, an increase of 21700% over the past 5 years. (Yes, 217 times more than the year 2000) The statistics also indicates in the year 2005, the amount of mobile phone users in China should reach 450 million, a new "Virtual Market on Thumbs" is being initiated in China.


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Comments:

Comment from: Jeffery Hampton [Visitor]
Mobile phone technologies are constantly updated here in Asia, and the acceptability of this technology is amazing. I think there are still much more potential in this market than now.
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