SMS now outstrips voice calls in UK

Two interesting articles:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/jd_power_survey/

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/7619/8643/Phones-Mobiles-Research-Survey-Cost.phtml

These show that SMS now outstrips voice calls in the UK.
This follows from the Ofcom findings last year, which noted that the majority of the UK prefer SMS text messaging to making voice calls.

Overall SMS grew by 15% in the UK in 2006.

This is not a world-wide trend though, as the reverse seems to be true in Germany.