Text Messaging usage set to soar
Sure, reading that title is like reading ‘if it is raining you will get wet’, but hear me out.
Text messages sent to and from mobile phones will more than double over the next five years to 2.3 trillion messages a year. In 2005 mobile phone operators estimated that 936 billion messages were transmitted, netting telephone companies $39.5 billion.
The industry says these figures prove SMS to be “the most successful mainstream mobile data service to have emerged during the 30-year history of the cellular telecoms industry” [via]
That is some serious change. I’m sure in a few years cellular spam will not only start but also reach unreasonable levels. With the potential to directly impact a consumer, abuses will be on the rise.
Do you think texting is a new form of communication, or yet another disruptive technology?
