Record text messages sent at New Year
Dutch mobile phone users sent over 70 million text messages during last night’s New Year celebrations, according to a ring-round of the country’s three main phone firms.
KPN reported 27.7 million text messages were sent, up three million on 2008. Vodafone saw a 14% increase in messages to 25.2 million while T-Mobile users sent 17.5 million messages, slightly fewer than in 2008.
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