Norwegians using SMS every day by age:
15-25 90%
26-35 60%
36-55 40%
87% of all Norwegians older than 15 have a mobile phone.
In 2000 1.16 billion SMS messages were sent by Norwegian mobile phone users. On New Year's Eve this year 20 million SMS messages were sent.
Not bad for 4.5 million people...
According to my friend in Telenor Mobil, the larges GSM network provider in Norway, once the SMS message enters the network, it should not be lost. Under extreme load (like New Year's Eve) the system starts buffering the messages. Once the buffer is full, the system prioritizes new messages and the buffered messages are not handled before the load comes down again. This explains why some messages are delayed for hours while others go straight through in extreme load situations. Messages that can't be serviced straight away in those situations are denied entry into the network and the user gets a network error message when trying to send the SMS.
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Norwegians using SMS every day by age:
15-25 90%
26-35 60%
36-55 40%
87% of all Norwegians older than 15 have a mobile phone.
In 2000 1.16 billion SMS messages were sent by Norwegian mobile phone users. On New Year's Eve this year 20 million SMS messages were sent.
Not bad for 4.5 million people...
According to my friend in Telenor Mobil, the larges GSM network provider in Norway, once the SMS message enters the network, it should not be lost. Under extreme load (like New Year's Eve) the system starts buffering the messages. Once the buffer is full, the system prioritizes new messages and the buffered messages are not handled before the load comes down again. This explains why some messages are delayed for hours while others go straight through in extreme load situations. Messages that can't be serviced straight away in those situations are denied entry into the network and the user gets a network error message when trying to send the SMS.
Sources:
http://telecom.no/arkiv/art/2092.html
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=9719804