We need to be careful when comparing the number of messages on instant messaging and via SMS. In the IM world an utterance or a conversational turn does not have a cost attached to each time the author sends a message and thus a conversational turn can consist of several "messages", for example: Hi <carriage return> How you doing? <carriage return> It was good to see you on Thursday <carriage return> All of this illustration may have been a single individual taking one conversational turn. In the SMS world, since every time you send a message you have to pay, the conversational turn would have included the entire utterance shown above. Another issue is that while there are more IM messages than SMS messages, I would bet that there are more mobile phones than PCs in Denmark. I have not looked at the PC adoption in Norway but I think that it is 70 or 80% of the HOMES. About 95% of the PEOPLE have mobile phones. Rich L. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of jespert Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 22:28 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; hitch@hum.ku.dk Subject: Re: [Air-l] Each Dane sends 102 SMS messages per month Dear Charlie, Only about 4 of the 5,4 million Danes have a mobile phone, and MSN Messenger is bigger with about 1.000.000.000 messages per month even though only about 740.000 Danes use MSN Messenger. http://www.mediawatch.dk/8.0/naviger.asp Regards Jesper Charlie Breindahl wrote:

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)=

Best, Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Part-time Lecturer Film and Media Studies University of Copenhagen

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