1.4bn texts sent weekly
BRITONS now send 1.4 billion text messages every week, or 2,315 a second, almost a third higher than a year ago.
Picture and video messaging is also up 30 per cent, with ten million picture messages sent per week, while mobile internet use has grown by 25 per cent since May 2006, with 4,500 new users every day.
Rob Bamforth, of the IT analyst Quocirca, said: "The mobile phone has become one of the three most important items people carry, along with keys and a wallet or purse."
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