Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Just how many SMS text messages do US wireless users go through each month, day, or hour? According to VeriSign, a veritable boatload - a technical term, to be sure.
The Mountain View, CA.-based company has announced that it ferried about 95.4 billion SMS text messages between wireless carriers in the 1H 2008. The volume of text messages set a new record for text messages sent in the first half of any year to date. Add to that the fact that VeriSign pushed through a record-breaking 648 million texts in a single day and 42 million text messages in a single one-hour window, and it becomes clear that more and more users are becoming savvy to the SMS text messaging craze.
Q2 2008 alone saw 52 billion messages zipping through the wireless airwaves, with daily averages in the period hitting 572 million messages - more than double the average daily volume of 230 million messages in Q2 2007.
What’s to account for the boost in text message usage? It’s most likely a combination of increased wireless penetration in the US, an increase in savvy consumers with SMS-friendly keyboard-toting smartphones, and perhaps the prevalence of mobile phones among the younger demographics.
In the end, we’ll likely see SMS text messages take a back seat to instant messaging and email services that aren’t subject to per-message fees or messaging limits.
The Mountain View, CA.-based company has announced that it ferried about 95.4 billion SMS text messages between wireless carriers in the 1H 2008. The volume of text messages set a new record for text messages sent in the first half of any year to date. Add to that the fact that VeriSign pushed through a record-breaking 648 million texts in a single day and 42 million text messages in a single one-hour window, and it becomes clear that more and more users are becoming savvy to the SMS text messaging craze.
Q2 2008 alone saw 52 billion messages zipping through the wireless airwaves, with daily averages in the period hitting 572 million messages - more than double the average daily volume of 230 million messages in Q2 2007.
What’s to account for the boost in text message usage? It’s most likely a combination of increased wireless penetration in the US, an increase in savvy consumers with SMS-friendly keyboard-toting smartphones, and perhaps the prevalence of mobile phones among the younger demographics.
In the end, we’ll likely see SMS text messages take a back seat to instant messaging and email services that aren’t subject to per-message fees or messaging limits.
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August 27 2008
EDT Colin Gibbs RCR Wireless NewsComment on this storyTriple-tapping continues to explode, according to new figures from VeriSign Inc.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it delivered 95.4 billion inter-carrier text messages in the first half of 2008, establishing a new record for text messaging activity during the period. VeriSign also reported a single-day record of 648 million texts and a one-hour record of 42 million messages.
The company said it delivered more than 52 billion messages during the second quarter of 2008, up more than 20% from the previous quarter. It saw a daily average of 572 million messages, more than doubling the 230 million per day during the second quarter of 2007.
Text message usage is expected to grow in the near future as the application continues to gain mass-market traction in North America and some emerging markets. But mobile instant messaging eventually will cannibalize SMS and computer-based e-mail, according to a recent study from TNS Technology, as users eschew messaging fees in favor of all-you-can-eat data plans.
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Según parece, 95.400 millones de mensajes SMS es lo que se ha enviado en Estados Unidos a lo largo del primer semestre de 2008. El récord también ha llegado con los 648 millones de SMS en un solo día y 42 millones de mensajes de texto en una hora está poniendo de manifiesto la locura por la mensajería SMS en este país.
Lo más probable es que una combinación en la penetración de dispositivos móviles y la venta de smartphones que disponen de teclado completo junto al gran crecimiento de terminales móviles en los jóvenes han sido el punto que faltaba para disparar estas cifras.
Lo más probable es que una combinación en la penetración de dispositivos móviles y la venta de smartphones que disponen de teclado completo junto al gran crecimiento de terminales móviles en los jóvenes han sido el punto que faltaba para disparar estas cifras.
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