Mobile phone users in the UK sent a record 2.5 billion text messages last month, according to industry figures.
A total of 133 million messages were sent on New Year's Day alone, the Mobile Data Association said.
The UK's main global system for mobile communications networks handled 82 million text messages a day in January.
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