Texting record for New Year
As the champagne flowed, the Swiss sent a record number of text messages to wish their friends and loved ones a happy new year.
Between December 31, 2006 and New Year’s Day, the Swiss sent a total of 100 million messages – text, photo and video messages – using their telephones – an average of 13.3 per inhabitant.
According to Sepp Huber, spokesman for Swisscom, its customers sent some 42.3 million text and photo messages – up twelve per cent on the previous year.
The two biggest mobile competitors, Sunrise and Orange, were also busy over the two days, with 28.7 million and 26.9 million text messages, respectively.
All three operators claim they were able to deal successfully with the traditional bottleneck between 11pm on New Year’s Eve and 1am on New Year’s Day.
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