88% of 50 Billion emails a day are junk

The Times Online published an article that there will be enough IP address by 2009 thanks to implementation of the IPv6. The estimated number will increase to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion or 340,282,366,920,938,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000. Just too many zeros to count.

At the end of the article are some really interesting information:

50 billion. The number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion
88 per cent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected
32. The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year
440 million. The number of electronic mailboxes in use, including 170 million corporate ones, growing by 32 per cent per year
1,035 million. The total number of mobile phone text messages sent each month in Britain
37. The average number of texts a user sends per month compared with 21 in 2001 1 million the number of children aged under 10 in Britain â€” one in three â€” who own a phone

Where did I saw that stats where the average Filipino mobile user sends about 8 text messages per day (240 per month)?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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3 Comments

trench says:

18 years ago

Tells me why my Thuderbird INBOX gets about 100 spam emails for every real email…

Email has become so unreliable.
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

A Wikipedia entry here indicates:

– Smart/Talk n Text: 21 Million subscribers
– Globe Telecoms: 15 Million subscribers
– Sun Cellular: 5 Million subscribers

That\’s a total of 41 Million subscribers generating 350-400 Million SMS per day.

Average is 8.5 to 10.25 SMS per day.
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Eugene says:

18 years ago

I did an informal research on the statistics of Pinoy SMS usage around two years ago (see http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/text_capital_of_the_world). (Many of the links in that post don’t work anymore.) One of the things I found was that Pinoys back then sent an average of 130 to 300 SMS per month (depending on the source). Maybe you read a different study? What was the time frame for this 8 SMS/day statistic you read?
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