Taiwan market: 41.4 million text messages sent in 2 hours on new year, says paper

Mobile phone users of the three largest mobile carriers in Taiwan, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), sent 41.4 million text messages, including multimedia messages, from 23:00 December 31, 2009 to 1:00 January 1, 2010, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

The total volume consisted of 20 million messages for CHT, 10.6 million messages for TWM and 10.8 million messages for FET, EDN pointed out.