Americans twice as text-happy as their European counterparts
By Will Park on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 2:56 PM PST In Announcements, Research
An SMS text messaging craze is taking the world by storm, and the US is apparently leading the charge. Despite Europe’s head start on text message adoption, it seems that Americans send far more SMS text messages per month than their European counterparts.
A new study from Portio Research has found that US monthly text messaging volume is double that of Europe. The finding is important because text messaging are still and expected to remain the leading source of data revenue for wireless networks.
“The mobile messaging market is expected rake in $130 billion in revenues by the end of the year, and is on pace to climb to $224 billion by 2013. At that level, mobile messaging will make up 60 percent of all non-voice service revenues.”
In other news, mobile email usage is expected to quadruple by 2013 – going from 250 million mobile emails today to about 1 billion in 2013.
[Via: WashingtonPost]
