Canadians Sent 96.5 Billion Text Messages in 2012

13 years ago

The CWTA has updated their stats on text messages and the numbers reveal in Q4 2012, Canadians sent 25 billion person-to-person text messages, bringing the total number of texts sent in 2012 to 96.5 billion, a 23 per cent increase compared to 2011 (78 billion).

As for MMS, 637 million were sent in 2012, compared to just 327 million in 2011, which is a huge jump. Here are some other stats:

As of December 2012, Canadians are sending an average of 2.2 million MMS messages per day.
In Q4 2012, MMS messages sent totaled 198 million.
Canadians sent and received a total of 599 million text messages using Common Short Codes in Q4 2012.

There’s no question third party messaging apps such as iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook messaging have affected standalone text messaging numbers. How often do you still send text messages?

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