15 million texters ring in new year

IRISH people sent a staggering 15 million text messages on New Year's Eve at a cost of more than €2m.

15 million texters ring in new year

PPL (that's people to all those non-texters out there) rang in the new year by sending more than 15 million text and picture msgs (messages) to wish ATB (all the best) to friends and family.

Vodafone facilitated the largest amount of text messages as more than 7.7 million texts were sent by their network users. O2 came a close second with another seven million messages sent on its network, while owners of Meteor phones fired-off a further 600,000 goodwill messages.

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