O2 customers send 7.10bn texts a year

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The latest results SMS volumes grew by 15% year on year to 7.10 billion messages across the O2 group as revealed in the 2007 second quarter results.

Peter Erskine, Chairman & Chief Executive of Telefónica O2 Europe, said that ‘Against the backdrop of highly competitive European markets, O2 has built on its robust start to the year, adding 534,000 mobile customers in the second quarter, taking the total mobile customer base to 36.4 million, 8.4% higher than last year”.