Mobile messaging totals break new records in Q2

Mobile messaging totals reached new peaks in the second quarter according to network infrastructure services provider VeriSign, which delivered a total of 93 billion P2P messages across its combined mobile messaging platforms--overall year-over-year growth of more than 82 percent, translating to more than $3.3 billion in revenue enabled for VeriSign's service provider customers, almost double the enabled revenue from Q2 2008. In total, VeriSign delivered 178.8 billion messages worldwide in the first half of 2009--its network set a single-day record on June 25, enabling 1.2 billion mobile messages over a 24-hour period, and also established a one-hour benchmark of 102 million messages between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. PDT as news spread of the deaths of both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.

For the first time ever, the daily average number of messages enabled by VeriSign's combined platforms broke the 1 billion mark, with approximately 1.04 billion messages per day in Q2--a 12 percent increase from the previous quarter and an 83 percent leap from Q2 2008. Premium SMS transactions experienced a 36.5 percent increase in total messages delivered in Q2 2009 compared to the previous year. In addition, more than 1.1 billion MMS messages were delivered in the second quarter.

For more on VeriSign's Q2 messaging totals:
- read this release [1]

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