The Mobile Data Association UK has published its quarterly report, highlighting the non stop growth of both SMS and MMS, with SMS again growing an astonishing 23% year on year in the UK:

Q4 2009 Statistical findings

Text Messaging (SMS)

Total number of text messages (SMS) sent in:

2009 total 96.8 billion
2008 total 78.9 billion
2007 total 56.9 billion

These SMS statistics can be broken down as follows in 2009:

Year on year growth (2009 vs 2008): 23% growth

Number of text messages sent per day: 265 million

Video and Picture messages (MMS)

Total number of picture messages (MMS) sent in:

2009 total 601 million
2008 total 553 million
2007 total 449 million

These statistics can be broken down as follows in 2009:

Year on year growth (2009 vs 2008): 9% growth

Number of MMS messages sent per day: 1.6 million