Mobile phone users in the US sent a staggering 1.5 trillion text messages in 2009, with an average of five billion messages sent out per day in the second half of last year, according to data from a wireless industry trade group.
In its semi-annual survey, CTIA-The Wireless Association said text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 822 billion text messages sent and received on carriers’ networks during the last half of 2009-amounting to almost five billion messages per day at the end of the year.
