2.9 Billion text-messages in the UK in October.
Holy Crap.
A staggering 2.9bn messages were sent in the UK during October, an average of 93.5m text messages sent per day, according to figures released by the Mobile Data Association (MDA). Person-to-person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month show an increase of 25.7 per cent on the total sent during the same period in 2004.
For the record, that is almost 48 SMS messages per UK citizen last month (well, 47.98). I will let you know if I find comparable US figures.