This Christmas and New Year will see a bumper crop of text and picture messages as friends and family share their season’s greetings according to communications company Orange.

Millions of text and MMS get sent across the Orange network everyday but at Christmas and New Year the numbers rise as customers share their greetings and snapshots of their dodgy Christmas jumpers.

Last festive season was a record year for Orange with more than 100 million text messages and more than 1 million picture messages being sent by customers on Christmas Day. This year, the numbers are expected to be even higher. Christmas Day is expected to be the busiest for picture messages with around 1.1 million photos of gifts, trees and turkeys.

New Year’s Eve is also expected to break all records with more than 120 million text messages likely to be sent. Last year saw 106million texts and almost 1 million picture messages celebrating the start of 2009.

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. With 126 million customers, the Orange brand now covers Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.

In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population, and 3G coverage to more than 93%. At the end of September 2009, Orange had more than 17 million customers in the UK – 16.11 million active mobile customers and approximately 900,000 fixed broadband customers.

At the end of 2008, France Telecom had consolidated sales of 53.5 billion euros (38.1 billion euros for the first nine months of 2009) and at 30 September 2009, the Group had a customer base of almost 190 million customers in 32 countries. These include 128.8 million mobile customers and 13.4 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers worldwide. Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number two provider of broadband Internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.

For more information please call the Orange Press Office 0870 3731500, or visit www.orange.co.uk/newsroom

Source: orange.co.uk

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