Texting Love: A Record 2.2 Billion Mobile
Messages Will Be Sent and Received this Valentine’s Day in North America,
VeriSign Projects
Message volume on February 14 expected to spike 40 percent, in line
with two-year trend
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Feb. 13, 2008 – According to calculations
by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of Internet infrastructure
for the networked world, a record 2.2 billion mobile messages, including
short message service (SMS), and multimedia messaging service (MMS)
messages, are expected to be sent and received across carriers and mobile
application providers on Valentine’s Day 2008 in North America alone.
Valentine’s Day is traditionally the busiest day of
the year for mobile messages. For the past two years, the number of
messages VeriSign powered on its infrastructure jumped 40 percent on
February 14 compared to an average day.
“Mobile messaging continues to show impressive growth,”
said Charles Meyers, group president, Messaging and Mobile Media, VeriSign.
“This is a business where the ability to quickly scale to meet huge
spikes in demand is absolutely critical. VeriSign successfully
met this demand by delivering 530 million SMS messages on New Year’s
Eve, and we’re confident that Valentine’s Day will bring another record
day to the network.”
Mobile messaging activity has continued to skyrocket
in the past 12 months. VeriSign powers inter-carrier mobile messaging
for seven of the top ten wireless carriers in North America, and the
company’s global infrastructure currently enables over 400 million messages
on a typical day. In 2007, VeriSign enabled 96 billion mobile messages
across its network globally, up from 43 billion in 2006.
VeriSign publishes a quarterly “Mobile Messaging Index”
which contains statistics, data and trends on the mobile messaging industry.
To receive a copy of the Index, send an email to pr@verisign.com.
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About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), operates internet infrastructure services
that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the
world’s voice, video and data networks. Additional news and information
about the company is available at www.verisign.com.
Contacts
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650-426-5146
VeriSign Industry Analyst Relations: Kathryn Hammler, khammler@verisign.com,
703-948-4367
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relationships, including the relationship described herein, may not
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