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August 11, 2004

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Text is louder than words

Xinhua reports China's mobile phone users are expected to send 550 billion SMS messages in 2004, generating revenue of US$6.7 billion for the operators. By 2006 it is predicted this will rise to 1.4 trillion messages. What the hell can so many people say when they write in that mysterious language called textish? And how will China be able to keep tabs on it all?

 posted by Simon on 08.11.04 at 12:52 PM in the




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