US To Top The Charts In Holiday SMS

Airwide Solutions has announced their forecast for this year’s New Years messaging bonanza. The US is set to lead the pack in the Western World, with 730 million messages to be sent to ring in the new year. The UK comes in close behind with 280 million, roughly 4.5 per person.

The Eastern World, however, makes us look like a joke. Regardless of the Chinese New Year being later in the year, Airwide is guessing that China will beat us all out. A typical day in China has 1.6 BILLION (with a ‘B’) messages going back and forth. The Swiss, apparently, do more messages per person, followed closely by Greece.

Interestingly, the French seem to send about the same number of messages as any other day during the holidays.

I still say that this is the year that the SMS greeting is passe. Let’s see those MMS fly around. Surely you can come up with a fun photo to send to everyone in your phonebook?