Text Message Statistics

We’ve all seen it.  Teens glued to their cell phones sending text messages…to the kid on the other side of the room.
But, just how much do teens text?
Nielsen analyzed over 40,000 mobile phone bills of USA teens to determine their texting habits.  The research firm found that American teens send an average of 10 text [...]

New evidence from the Mobile Data Association shows the United Kingdom’s ever increasing appetite for
 text messages.
In 2009, Brits sent 96.8 billion text messages and over 600 million picture messages.  That comes out to an average of 265 million text messages per day in the UK.
Christmas Day was the biggest day of the year for picture [...]

Morgan Freeman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim McGraw, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon join the Ad Council and American Red Cross to launch this public service announcement to Support Victims of the Earthquake in Haiti.
Americans have poured over $30 million into a text message donation program for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.  It is, by far, [...]

Last week, both the House and the Senate voted to unanimously approve legislation that will allow taxpayers to claim a deduction on their 2009 income tax returns for contributions to earthquake relief victims in Haiti,
even though those donations occurred in 2010.
Tax payers have until February 28, 2010 to qualify for the tax relief for donations [...]

Young people in the United States now spend 49 minutes per day on average on their mobile phone doing things other than talking such as playing games and getting on the world wide web, according to a new
study by Kaiser Family Foundation.  Add to that an average of 33 minutes talking on the cell phone [...]

New information from a study in Michigan shows that teens are sexting with their personal cell phones
more and more.  There appears to be a maturity divide between the technology of the cell phone and the ability to identify the ramifications of sexting.  Hopefully, this is something that is being covered in homes with parents [...]

Virgin Mobile says that 225 million text messages will be sent on its network on New Year’s Eve in Canada. The biggest texters were those aged 18-30 who sent an average of eight text messages each at the turn of the decade.
Chris Baines, a spokesman for Virgin Mobile, said that the second biggest day of the [...]

Mobile data service revenues grew by 27% from quarter 3, 2008 to quarter 3, 2009 to a total of $11.3 billion
 in the United States.  Growth by quarter was up 5%, according to a study by Chetan Sharma Consulting.
Benefiting most from the increase was Verizon and AT&T which garnered 80% of the increase.  In fact, Verizon [...]

A new study shows working moms are some of the US’s highest spenders on cell phone services. This could upset the stereotype about men being the big technology spenders.
The average cell phone bill for a working mom is 21% higher than that of the average mobile user, topping out at $94 a month. These women [...]

A recent study by Ergonomist Ewa Gustafsson studied the mobile phone habits of 56 young adults who text message on a regular basis (several times daily). Her findings showed that half of the students reported problems with neck, arms or hands while the other half had no such symptoms.
Gustafsson states, “Considering how much we use [...]