Text Messaging Up 142 Percent
By Anna Johnson on November 25th, 2008VeriSign, which delivers messages on behalf of carriers and content providers around the world, says that year-to-date text messaging is up 142 percent over the volume of texts sent this time last year.
VeriSign, whose combined mobile messaging networks (P2P and A2P) connect to more than 600 carriers in over 150 countries, recorded a 10 percent increase in messages sent per day from the second to third quarters of 2008. This brings the year-to-date total to over 153 billion total messages, a 142 percent increase from this time last year.
The company projects that its mobile messaging networks will deliver nearly 200 billion total messages by the end of the year, double the 95.9 billion in 2007.
Source: VeriSign, “VeriSign Mobile Messaging Index Q3 2008″, VeriSign, November 17, 2008
November 27th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Well it is pretty obvious who is doing all this texting. the age group from 12 to mid 20s is the bigest group. Just walk around any City and you will see them texting all the time. They never have time to put their phone back in their pocket befor they have another message. My son spend hours texting when he is not in collage.
The biggest reason has to be the phone companies are offering unlimeted texts in there contracts so they no longer have to pay any extra on their phone bill where as their minuets are limited. If you havent got a teenager borrow one for a day and you will see what I mean.
When mine isnt texting he is chatting to his friens on line between what ever he is doing. Perhaps the next generation will never learn to talk.