Text Messaging Volumes in USA
Posted: December 20th, 2009.
If you need any evidence to see how much text messaging has proliferated in the past few years, you just need to see this statistic. Of course, this is also a period when cell phones saw a terrific rise in usage. However, it is also a fact that SMS as a communication medium has become much more affordable today than in the past. Here is the number of SMS sent in the month of December in US over the past six years
2003 : 2.1 billion
2004 : 4.7 billion
2005 : 9.8 billion
2006 : 18.7 billion
2007 : 48.1 billion
2008 : 110.4 billion
The number of mobile phone subscribers has risen 70% from 159 million to 270 million in these six years
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Comment from Anand Srinivasan
Time March 24, 2010 at 6:29 pm
This is according to numbers compiled by the US Census Bureau : http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i6Yobk4Wrx1CH-RVcZ74uYQN_oAw
Comment from qualcomm
Time March 27, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Fantastic, thanks!
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Time September 20, 2010 at 1:09 pm
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Comment from qualcomm
Time March 24, 2010 at 6:27 pm
To the author of this: Where did this data come from? Thanks.