Dear all, I don't have the numbers, but in Thailand people don't use SMS that much at all. Right now it is mostly used for people voting their preferences in TV games. There have been talks about telecom companies raking in a lot of money when their subscribers send their messages for voting, the cost of which is much higher than ordinary sending. Part of the reason why SMS is not popular here may be a technical and linguistic one. Thai alphabet system is quite complicated, so it is rather hard to type on the tiny keypad on the cell phone. There are more than sixty different letters for each consonant, vowel, and tone in Thai, so getting them all on the keypad is quite a task. Cheers, Soraj
In the first six months of 2004, the 5.4 million Danes have sent 2,958,045,000 SMS messages - or 102 per month on average. In the same period, the Danes sent 4,367,000 MMS messages.
SMS messages are short text messages sent from and received on mobile phones. MMS messages are multi-media SMS messages, predominantly sent from camera phones. The use of SMS messages is predominantly a youth phenomenon, but SMS is increasingly used instead of phone-in voting and in mail-in competitions.
Just thought you'd like to know :o)=
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