Canadians are sending text messages at a record rate. The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) says Canadians sent 16.4 billion person-to-person text messages in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 15 percent increase over the 14.2 billion text messages sent in Q3 in the previous quarter.
In December, 2010, Canadian residents sent 5.8 billion person-to-person text messages, or 186 million messages per day. The average cell phone subscriber in Canada sent 235 text messages in the month of December, 2010.
The total number of text messages sent in 2010 numbered 56.4 billion, a whopping 60% increase over the 2009 total of 35.3 billion messages.
In June, 2011, Advanced Telecom Services will offer a do-it-yourself text message marketing site for Canada. It will be an extension of its wildly popular mobile marketing site in the USA.
Text message use in Canada