8. Mobile

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Text messaging growth. Source: ComReg Quarterly report for the fourth quarter of 2007, and Quarterly Key Data - December 2007

Irish mobile phone users love texting more than ever. They sent 7.58 billion text messages during 2007 – a 74% increase on 2005.

By comparison, the take-up of MMS messaging – “next-generation” multimedia messages such as images – remains relatively low.

Irish users sent 33.7 million MMS messages in 2007, an increase of just 7.5% on 2006 levels.

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