Text Messaging usage set to soar
This post was published 2 years 11 months 9 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.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?
So this is why Cingular is raising their text message rates.
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/681351
Anyone remember a few years back a Norwiegen company started sending out SMS spam? It affected the Scandinavian countries but was quickly put a stop a to by putting in place a law that makes it illegal to send unsolicitated SMS. So we’re covered in Denmark :-)