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Happy 15th birthday, SMS. Now grow up.

What viable opportunities exist for the expansion of SMS? It seems impossible that SMS could be any more widespread, but at a panel event held last night in London, held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the sending of the first ever GSM text message (the Crystal Anniversary, we reckon), industry figures each iterated their vision for increasing usage of SMS services.

UK MMS-ers send one million a day

FIRST OFFICIAL PICTURE MESSAGING TOTAL RELEASED

The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has said that UK mobile users sent 88 million picture messages (MMS) during the third quarter of 2006.  October’s total was the highest, with 30 million picture

British businesses see no use in 3G

Operators encouraged to sell solutions rather than technology

Half of British businesses have no need for 3G data, according to a survey of leading IT and telecoms professionals, carried out by the Communications Management Association (CMA).

HALF UK MOBILE CUSTOMERS CAN ACCESS THE WEB VIA THEIR MOBILE

But do they?

The Mobile Data Association (MDA) today announced the quarterly figures for the total number of GPRS and MMS devices being used by customers in the UK as of 30th June 2004.  The quarterly figures from

SMS continues to thrive

June’s UK text messaging figure of 2.10 billion sets a new record, making it the 6th consecutive month of reporting a total in excess of 2 billion texts, according to figures released today by the Mobile Data Association

Word gets around by text

UK text messaging figures continued to climb in May 2004 to 2.19 billion, 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

WAP figures rise

During January 2004 the total number of WAP page impressions viewed in the UK reached 1.2 billion, according to figures announced today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA).