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Canadian text obsession reaches new heights, as total messages sent reaches almost 80 billion in 2011

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In news that probably won’t surprise parents of text-obsessed teenagers, Canadians sent an average of almost 2,500 messages every second last year, for a total of about 78 billion. That figure was up almost 40 percent from 2010. The number of personal text messages sent every year has neaerly quadrupled since 2008.

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Permalink | April 14th, 2012

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