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USA Text Message Statistics

Statistics from a webinar hosted by Neustar.

  • 72.2% of wireless users have paid for SMS packages.  This equates to 203 million Americans.
  • 57% of wireless users 13+ are considered regular text message users.
  • There has been a 107% increase in text message use in the USA in the past year.
  • 2.5 billion text messages are sent each day in the USA.
  • More text messages are sent per phone than phone calls.  The average text messages used per month is 357 compared to 204 cell phone calls.
  • 15 million Americans used video on their cell phones in quarter two, 2008.
  • 138 million Americans have sent a text message in the past three months.

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8 Responses to “USA Text Message Statistics”

  1. Saturday(Z) 04.18.09, Random Thoughts With Espresso « heParker(Z) blog(Z) Says:
    April 18th, 2009 at 10:34 am

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    November 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm

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  4. annonamous Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    i never knew there were that many textmessages in this word, i hope texting wont be as popular in 2010. I think its a waste of time and monet:?

  5. Technology in the Middle » Blog Archive » Curriculum, Technology, and the Pace of Change Says:
    December 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    [...] Text Messages: 2.5 billion sent in the United States [...]

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  7. Haiti- Pay it Forward for a Nation’s Future | Mrs Bankrupt Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    [...] of the quickest ways to aid these folks is via text. Americans collectively send out more than 2.5 billion of these 160 character messages every DAY.  Per person, that amounts to about 357 monthly. Surely [...]

  8. Dalcy Says:
    January 27th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Wow, thats insane. But I believe it.

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