SMS, Mobile Web All the Rage in UK

It’s official: folks in the UK love their mobile Internet. And sending text messages. And picture and video messaging, too.

According to a new report from the UK’s Mobile Data Association covering January-May of this year, UK consumers send roughly 1.5 billion text messages every week. Once SMS messaging takes off for commercial uses, the MDA expects volume to rise considerably.

Mobile users who like a bit more media with their messages send an average 10 million picture messages per week, which equals year-over-year growth of 30%.

In May, even before they could get their hands on the iPhone 3G, some 16.5

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