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It is an SMS world

Consumers last year spent $47.5bn on text messages and that number is set to increase by another 10 per cent to $52.5 by 2007, according to Portio Research. By 2012 people will send an unimaginable 3.7 trillion messages, the study projects.

202pxsms_message_1 For your reference, people spent slightly more money on SMS messages than they paid Microsoft in 2006 (revenues: $44,3bn).

That's an impressive accomplishment for a technology that has turned millions of people from spelling properly.

February 21, 2007 at 12:44 AM | Permalink

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