Chinese sent 217.76 billion SMS messages in 2004

From New Kerala: “Chinese mobile phone users sent a whopping 217.76 billion SMS messages in 2004, up 58.8 per cent from the previous year, the government said.

According to statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China’s information industry brought in more than 21.7 billion yuan last year, as sending one SMS costs 0.1 yuan in the country.”

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