New Year 2014 SMS and MMS.
As usual people around the world sent greeting to their relatives and friends on the eve of the New Year 2014. There seems to be a small adjustment in the number of SMS sent this New Year day as plenty people used MMS, Skype and Snapchat to greet their loved ones.
In Australia alone nearly 101 million text messages were sent through Telstra network and around 50 million form Optus.
There are nearly 24.7 million active mobile phone users in Australia who can send and receive SMS and MMS messages.
In Thailand the data usages surged by 175% on the Last day of the year 2013. Nearly 300,000 MMS and 13.8 million SMS text messages were sent as New Year greetings between 12am and 1am on that day.
Philippine the texting capital (SMS) the service was little less than the previous year as the people used new ways to greet their friends and relatives rather than using the traditional SMS and voice messages. MMS, Skype and Snapchat were the new emerging messaging tools with the help of the Smartphone and the other hand held devices.
Mean while some people had hacked the Snapchat users data and published usernames and partial phone numbers of 4.6 million in a web site during the New year season and the Skype social media accounts too were hacked by some unknown people and the Twitter account of the Skype was posted with the following message as "Don't use Microsoft emails (Hotmail, outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the government.
More details soon. #SEA.".