Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Report: People Will Send More Text Messages Next Year Than This Year
Information Week
Gartner took quite a leap of faith in predicting that SMS usage in 2008 will top 2007′s numbers. In fact, Gartner goes so far as to say that the number of messages will top 2.3 trillion worldwide. That’s an average of 767 messages per mobile subscriber over the course of 12 months. I think we can all do better than that.
First some facts and figures. Gartner estimates that about 1.9 trillion messages were sent this year and next year will see 20 percent growth to reach the 2.3 trillion mark. In line with increased usage, network operators should expect to see their messaging revenue climb about 16 percent from $52 billion in 2007 to $60.2 billion in 2008. Not a bad chunk of change.
