This IMDA collection documents Singapore mobile-network SMS traffic sent and received over time. The quarterly CSV series reports average monthly message volumes per quarter, reflecting how citizens and businesses used SMS before messaging apps dominated personal communication. Telecom analysts, historians of Singapore’s infocomm sector, and researchers studying legacy mobile usage can plot trends from 2008 through 2019. Official notes explain rounding rules for subscription-related figures bundled with the release.
With effect from Aug 2008, figures for "SMS Messages" will be updated on a quarterly basis every Mar, Jun, Sep and Dec. The figures are average monthly figures for the respective quarter. All figures for subscriptions are rounded to the nearest hundred.
Total SMS messages sent and received over Singapore mobile networks, published by the Info-communications Media Development Authority in CSV from 2008 to 2019. Documents the decline of SMS as OTT messaging grew, useful for telecom usage and digital communication trend studies.