VeriSign: Mobile messages top 84 billion in Q1

Subscribers transmitted more than 84 billion messages in the first quarter of 2009 according to network infrastructure services provider VeriSign's Messaging and Mobile Media division. VeriSign--which delivers 60 percent of the text and mobile message traffic in the U.S. inter-carrier market--reports that its combined mobile messaging networks enabled an average of approximately 932 million messages per day in Q1, an 18.5 percent quarter-over-quarter increase and a 96 percent year-over-year leap. Traffic peaked on Valentine's Day, when VeriSign delivered more than 1.06 billion SMS and MMS messages.

VeriSign's Inter-Carrier MMS and PictureMail platforms also continued to experience traffic growth: MMS and PictureMail volumes increased 130 percent and 84 percent respectively over the previous quarter. In total, VeriSign delivered more than 1.1 billion MMS messages in Q1.

For more on VeriSign's Q1 messaging growth:
- read this release [1]

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