SMS: I am the KING!

According to The Handphone Users Survey 2005 conducted by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC):

For Malaysian, SMS emerged as the highest usage in 2005 as compared to other more advanced services such as 3G, mobile commerce and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP).

• 84.9% of the users sent at least 1 SMS a day
• 49.6% sent out at least 5 SMS a day

Besides,

Number of cellular phone subscriptions in Malaysia grew from 12.32 million in 2004 to 16.24 million for 2005.
Those under 20 - 13.1% of the users.

Typical cellphone user in Malaysia is

• a working adult
• Living in Selangor, Johor or Kuala Lumpur
• earning up to RM3,000 a month
• use prepaid phone account