Data from the Communications Regulator shows a fall of 26 per cent in the number of texts sent by Irish mobiles in 2013.
However Irish customers still sent almost 2.2 billion texts in the last three months of 2013 – the equivalent of 443 texts for every mobile phone in the country.
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The ComReg report suggests texts are being slowly overtaken by messages through other apps: mobile users downloaded over 12 terabytes of data in the last quarter, an increase of 44 per cent.