Cell phone users in India who sought to avoid the “SMS Logjam” of New Year wishes being texted at the stroke of midnight are reported to have sent their greetings out as much as several days in advance. As explained over at Textually.org, an article in the Times of India states that the flood of “Happy New Year” SMS messages would have been much more than the wireless infrastructure could bear and, for that reason, many users were messaging 2007 in before it even arrived.
TOI’s Saturday edition had said that the 150 million mobile users in India were expected to send out over one billion SMSes at midnight on December 31, a volume virtually equivalent to every citizen in India receiving an SMS. But as the week progressed, it was apparent that people had chosen to beat ‘rush hour’ by texting their greetings much in advance.
So many people were sending their New Year’s SMS messages early, in fact, that (according to Times of India) many cell phone in-boxes were already jam packed days before “D-Day”.
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