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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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:?
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January 27th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Wow, thats insane. But I believe it.
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September 11th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
When will we realize that SMS is a toy. Whip
it out of your pocket, press 160 keys (or 200 if
your thumb is too fat). WHEEEEEE!
It’s turning the world into hordes of haiku
scribblers, destroying the English language and
replacing it with a dictionary of perversions.
The sad part is that almost by definition the
messages are too short to really communicate
anything. “Hi Joe! I’m at Walmart.” How did we
ever do without it?
Why are the messages so short? The people
selling the service have tower control channels
that are always active, and have lots of extra
capacity. So much that more than a trillion
micromessages can be carried without adding
communication costs. And the service providers
will make thirty billion dollars in 2010
providing the service. Average cost per message,
14.7 cents.
I’ve done most of the engineering design
for a desk landline telephone stand. It has a
forty character display, a little drawer
containing a folded full size keyboard, and
software that allows creating and editing text of
any length. When you like what you’ve written
(with ten fingers), place a call, press a function key and HMMMMM, off goes your text,
perhaps 900 words per minute. Is it private?
Press another function key and only someone with
your key can read it. The message is sent with
audio signals, and a voice channel can carry it
without any additional fees. You purchase the
device, and never have to pay an additional dime.
If you have “Moby Dick” on a USB memory stick,
plug it in, press a button, and it’s sent to
someone’s memory. All this with no computer and
no internet access. A five dollar microprocessor
does all the work.
My question is, why isn’t such a device
available? It could have been built in the
sixties. My second question is, why can’t I
interest anyone in developing it?
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November 13th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Text Messaging is fast becoming the advertising medium of choice and I for one am glad that the average Joe has a chance to participate in some of the profits. Opportunities like the one at http://www.getpaidtogettext.com don’t cost the consumer any money but give them the ability to offset their cell phone bill and even put some extra cash in their pocket in exchange for receiving a few ads from local or national businesses they have interest in. I think we are going to see a big shift in advertising and if the consumers are continue to get a piece of the pie it could be a big win win for everyone.
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