All thumbs, without the stigma

Thanks to text messaging, the thumb has evolved into a preferred tool of 21st-century communication.
The New York Times

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Text Capital of the World

The year 1999:
The Philippines has become by far the global capital of text messaging, a feature of digital cell phones virtually ignored in many other countries.

Each day, more than 18 million text messages are transmitted in the country--twice as many as in all of Europe, industry officials say. That's an average of 25 a day for each of the 720,000 subscribers of Globe Telecom Inc.

That is 1999, i do not have the data for the present 2004.

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