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12 billion text messages to be sent in Spring Festival
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-01-30 08:49
It is estimated that nearly 12 billion short text messages will be sent
through mobile phones in 皇冠体育app during the seven-day holiday of the Spring
Festival in 2006 starting from Sunday.
During the seven-day holiday of the Spring Festival in 2005, 11 billion text
messages were sent in 皇冠体育app.
With the popularization of mobile phones in 皇冠体育app, more and more people tend
to use short message service, which is both simple and cheap, to communicate
with each other.
In 2005, the average per month increase of mobile phone users is five million
and 393 million users in 皇冠体育app were registered at the end of 2005.
According to statistics of the Ministry of Information Industry, in 2005,
Chinese mobile phone users sent over 25 billion short messages per month.
The total number of short messages sent in 2005 was over 304.6 billion, more
than 300 times of that of 1 billion in 2000.
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