New Year's texting breaks record, BBC News, 5 Jan 2005

“A mobile phone was as essential to the recent New Year's festivities as a party mood and Auld Lang Syne, if the number of text messages sent is anything to go by. Between midnight on 31 December and midnight on 1 January, 133m text messages were sent in the UK. It is the highest ever daily total recorded by the Mobile Data Association (MDA).�

Full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4148899.stm