Malaysian World No 6 in SMS

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I can’t help but ponder on this article highlighted in The Edge Daily:

Malaysians are world’s 6th largest SMS users

Malaysia ranks sixth in the world in terms of total SMS volume, behind China, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia and India, Maxis head of strategy and new businesses Dr Nikolai Dobberstein said.

Malaysia came ahead of countries like the UK and South Korea, he said, quoting data from Gartner research that showed SMS volume growing 20% last year. About 50 billion SMSes were generated in Malaysia last year, behind India’s 70 billion and Indonesia’s 90 billion.

I think the proper headlines should go something like this: “Malaysians are world’s 6th largest SMS-SPAMMED users”.

By the way, I just got my “daily SMS SPAM subscription” that goes: “Bro, you heard maxis comming out with super speed 4d results? I think everyone can apply, just use sms to write ON FAST then send to 36383. I think is rm0.50/sms”

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