25m texts (sms) sent in Ireland every day

Dublin- Some 25 million text messages are sent in Ireland everyday, according to the latest data from the telecom regulator, ComReg.
New figures also confirm that mobile phones are continuing to overtake landlines as the most popular method of making calls here. In the first three months of this year, there were almost 100,000 new broadband connections, bringing broadband penetration in Ireland to almost 23%.