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| Official Mobile Texting Facts & Figures |
2008 Mobile Texting Facts & Figures |
- 44% of U.S. mobile subscribers text message regularly; nearly 100% among teens, 85% among college students, 65-70% among young adults, 55% for those in their 30’s, 14% of those 65 and older.
- AUSTRALIANS are set to send more than 10 billion text messages in 2008, as mobile phones become the preferred form of communication.
- Telecommunications analyst Gartner has forecast that the number of mobile phone messages worldwide in 2008 will pass 2.3 trillion messages, a 19.6-per-cent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages.
- Within Australia, Gartner predicts 10.8 billion mobile messages will be sent in 2008, and top 11.2 billion in 2011.
- Revenue from messaging is expected to grow 15.7 per cent in 2008 to $US60.2 billion ($70.45 billion), up from $US52 billion ($60.85 billion) in 2007.
- According to Decima Research, young people ages 13 to 24 are the largest group of wireless phone users in Canada .
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