Q1 global SMS messages top 50 billion

I must admit - I'm a bit of an SMS junkie myself, probably averaging around 10 messages a day, but I was quite taken aback to discover that as a planet we are now sending around 200 billion SMS messages to each other every year. That's over 500 million messages a day, 22 million messages an hour, 380000 messages a minute, and over 6000 messages a second. I guess I shouldn't complain too much when a message doesn't arrive instantly. [via ZDNet]