The World around Texting That you may not be aware
Texting is still the number one reason why teens say they get a phone, with 43% reporting this as
their primary reason for mobile adoption
Worlds first text message was sent in 1992 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group used a
personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.
On New Year's day 2003, the number of text messages sent in
one day topped one hundred million
On New Year's day 2011, the number of text messages sent in
one day topped 380 million
There are
more than
5.3 billion
mobile
devices in
use globally
In 2011.......
and….
Globally
8 trillion
text
messages
will be sent
in 2011
In 2011.......
31% prefer texting to talking on the phone
* USA
Mobile owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a
normal day
83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive
text messages
On an average girls typically send and receive 80 messages per day
On an average, boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day
1 trillion text messages were sent in the U.S. during the second half of 2010. That number,
while impressive, was up just 8.7 percent compared to the first half of 2010
Messaging revenues to hit USD 334.7 billion by end-2015Global mobile messaging market was worth USD 179.2 billion in 2010, and is set to pass the USD 200 billion mark in 2011. It will break USD 300 billion for the first time in 2014; by end-
2015 annual revenue will hit an incredible USD 334.7 billion.
Now texting is a bigger business ….
36% of the U.S. population have sent text messages from the toilet
In the U.S. more than 70% of them have sent text messages while eating
Sex + Texting = Sexting
16% of them have sent text messages while having Sex
26 percent of cell phone users said that they have texted while driving
46% of the teens in the U.S. admit to have
texted while driving
28 percent of car accidents are caused by talking or texting while driving
Texting while driving was responsible for 16,000 deaths in 6 years
Yes texting is a bigger business, but not bigger than a life
Your life can take an unexpected twistand now ……..
Stop Texting while Driving
Federal employees will not be allowed to text while driving – Barack Obama
Most people think they can text and talk on the phone and they can handle it, and it's the 'other' people who can't really handle it - Oprah Winfrey
Stop texting while driving testimonials
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages
http://cellphones.org/blog/text-messaging/
http://rtn.asia/678_global-mobile-revenue-will-double-year-433-billion-gartner
http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/06/03/analyst-text-messaging-declin-in-u-s-threaten-carrier-profits/
http://www.intellicorp.net/marketing/texting-while-driving-statistics.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011202218.html
Sources:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/
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