U.S. Text Messaging Declines For the First Time [Report]
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Posted November 13, 2012 at 6:58am by iClarified
A new report published by Chetan Sharma finds that U.S. text messaging has declined for the first time, notes the NYTimes.
The study found that in Q3 of this year, cellphone owners sent an average of 678 texts a month, down from 696 texts a month in the previous quarter.
Though that’s a small dip, the change is noteworthy because for several years, text messaging had been steadily growing in the United States. Mr. Sharma said it was too early to tell whether the decline here would continue, but he noted that Internet-based messaging services, like Facebook messaging and Apple’s iMessage, had been chomping away at SMS usage. He said the decline would become more pronounced as more people buy smartphones. A bit more than 50 percent of cellphone owners here have smartphones.
I am happy to see more people using Internet based text apps the telecoms have been ripping us off for far to long! Now call your congress person & demand that the telecoms that lease the radio spectrum offer unlimited data plans for reasonable prices!
Onemanwireless iPhone unlock - November 13, 2012 at 11:14pm
These stats are probably off because people use text messaging apps and messengers way more than they used to.
There a ton of free messaging apps.
I personally use one and save myself $20/mo that way.
The people who live in the USA do but believe me I live in the United Kingdom and travel a lot due to my employment. It was first of all shocking at the hatred around the world to America but after 20 years of travelling all I see and hear is the fact that America is one of the most disliked countries from non-Americans.