This week marks a milestone in the SMS phenomena in the U.K with more than one billion text messages sent and received this week alone.
This is equal to the number of text messages for the whole of 1999.
The broadcasting industry has been interacting with audiences with the SMS tool increasingly over the last few years, proving to be an effective real-time marketing tool that targets a specific audience.
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