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About how many SMS and MMS messages were sent in the U.S. in 2021?
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about 534 messages
That added up to about 152.7 billion texts sent across 286 million U.S. subscribers that month.
Source: Wikipedia (Text messaging) (2009) en.wikipedia.org
about 7.4 billion
That figure came from RoboKiller's tracking of spam text traffic that month.
Source: RoboKiller (via FCC) (2021) fcc.gov
over 15,000 complaints
That was on top of a huge volume of complaints about unwanted robocalls.
Source: Federal Communications Commission (2021) fcc.gov
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