Hello all, In response to my question yesterday on the number of text messages being sent on a global basis, I came across some statistics. In Wikipedia there is some discussion of the number of text messages being sent (it is unclear if they also include, for example CDMA messaging and iMode messages). They write "In 2000, just 17 billion SMS messages were sent; in 2001 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001> , the number was up to250 billion, and 500 billion SMS messages in 2004."
According to a company called Logica CMG (who produce SMS servers for industry), there were 1.2 trillion messages sent in 2005. The GSM Association reports, "It is estimated that a worldwide total of 1 trillion text messages were sent in 2005."
I am not quite sure which source to believe. Wikipedia seems somewhat conservative and I am never quite sure whether to believe what is written there. The Logica CMG numbers might be high and since they have commercial interest, they might over estimate. The GSM association is probably only GSM texting and not iMode/CDMA. As several people have indicated, the numbers are pretty loose since there are different reporting standards in the various countries and there are also definitional issues. With the introduction of IM to mobile platforms the counting will become more difficult I would suspect. The Britannica has a somewhat "U.K.-centric" article that does not really include worldwide stats and mangles the history/use of texting.Rich L.
_____________________________________________ From: mobile-society@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ling Richard Seyler (R&I) Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How many SMS/text messages are being sent? Hello all, I have a quick question. I have been looking around the net and I can not find a place that will tell me the number of SMS and text messages (Japan ect.) that are being sent worldwide. I have looked, for example at the 3GPP site and the site of the ITU etc. They do not seem to have this statistic. Do any of you have any clues where I can look? Rich L. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to mobile-society@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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