Friday, 17 June 2011

SMS history ,Pakistan vs Global trends

SMS (short messaging service) is the cheapest and effective way of communication in these days.SMS are the most used communication technique around the world. A survey shows that more than four billion peoples use mobile phone and 74 % of them use SMS services in the world.The sms concept was developed in 1984 .
in 2009 more than 4 billion active users sent 5 trillion(5,000,000,000,000) SMS around the world and approximately this ratio is 105 SMS per person per month.
In year 2008/09 Pakistan had the largest text messaging growth in Asia.


Some information of Pakistani traffic in 2009 (approximate)

  • TOTAL SMS in 2009                          151.6385  billion
  • TOTAL SMS per month                    18.6  billion
  • TOTAL SMS per day                           621.2 million
  • TOTAL SMS per second                     7190
  • SMS per subscriber per month       128  
  • SMS per subscriber per day             4