No one beats us at the joys of text

THE message is clear – when it comes to the joys of text nobody beats the Irish.

We sent more than eight billion texts in the past 12 months, more than twice as much as our European partners.

In the 12 months to the end of March, Vodafone customers sent 4.8bn texts while O2 said its customers sent 3.2bn. In the three months to March, Meteor’s one million customers sent more than 1.3m texts.