Exactly 20 years ago, on 3 December 1992, in the UK, the era of SMS. In this day of computer-to-phone was sent the first SMS - greetings merry Christmas. SMS is still the most popular way of communication
Mobile telephony and messaging service, SMS messages began to gain popularity after the development and implementation of the business model of service on a prepaid basis. At the dawn of messaging services, in 1995, per subscriber on average accounted for only 0, 4 messages per month - now departs daily more than 25,000 messages around the world. This means that in 2012 were sent about 10 billion text messages.
Facts and figures:
3 December 1992 was sent the first SMS message containing the greeting "merry Christmas".
In 1995 the average user sent 0, 4 SMS per month.
The introduction of payment in real time played a decisive role in the growing popularity of SMS around the world.
In December 1998, the number of subscribers using pre-paid tariffs, was about 45 000.
In 1998 there was a system of predictive text input T9.The first phone that supports T9 appeared on the market in 1999.
In 2000 was sent to 17 billion messages.
According to Informa Telecoms & Media, in 2002, was sent 352 billion messages.
The service of sending SMS messages were used primarily young people, especially girls.
According to Informa Telecoms & Media, 2004 was sent 918 billion messages.
You receive the SMS reminders, allowing users already don't forget about the scheduled visit, for example, to the dentist or the hairdresser, or that you need to pick up the plane tickets.
In 2008, the number of sent messages amounted to 4, 8 trillion.
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