BEIJING, JANUARY 24: Chinese mobile phone subscribers sent a record 304.65 billion short messages (SMS) last year, up nearly 40 per cent over 2004, boosting revenues, a report said here.
Link: http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=115511
300 billion texts? Geez! That’s A) a lot of revenue and B) a heck of a lot of annoying beeps 
