But the messages were probably only 16 bytes long 'Happy New Year !' Or less than 1 MiB a second, 641 GiB total. Certainly within Mainframe capabilities ;-)
-----Original Message----- Phil Payne b) GSM text messaging. I got a Nokia 1011 within days of GSM going live in Europe. 160 byte messages sent clumsily by multiple key depressions? Get outa here! And an estimated 43,000,000,000 were sent this last New Year's Eve alone. Yup - all those noughts belong there - forty-three US billion. (Spread over the whole day, that's 50,000 a second. Just under half passing through one message centre. You thought your mainframe had throughput?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
