By admin on May 14, 2009
Author: Robert Bentz
Philadelphia — Once considered a teenage fad, text messaging popularity in the United States is rising dramatically. Worldwide, according to the Mobile Marketing Association, 350 billion text messages are sent per month. Text messages, also known as SMS, are exchanged across the world’s networks with 15% of the messages being classified as commercial [...]
Posted in TXT/SMS Marketing, Text Messaging | Tagged Advertising, Mobile phone, Short message service |
By admin on March 10, 2009
Recent news stories have reported a phenomenon that most knew existed: there is a gap in the use of text messaging between younger and older cell phone owners. Reports vary but indications are those 12 to 30 years of age account for 80% of text messaging usage.
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Because of the instantaneous nature of texting [...]
Posted in TXT/SMS Marketing, Text Messaging | Tagged Communication, Mobile phone, Nonverbal communication, Short message service, Text Messaging |
By admin on December 1, 2007
Text messaging has become one of the latest fads of today. It just makes life a little easier, not to mention that it is a whole lot more fun than talking on the phone. Text messaging is quick, simple, and best of all silent. Why is silent the best? Well, say, for instance, you are [...]
Posted in TXT/SMS Marketing, Text Messaging | Tagged Mobile Computing, Mobile phone, Short message service, Text Messaging |
By admin on November 26, 2007
According to the data from Communities-dominate blogs, the frequency of txt / sms messaging is mind blowing! Here are some numbers to put the 2.4 Billion (with a B) mobile phone users worldwide into perspective:
800 million automobile owners
1.3 B people who have a fixed land line
1.5 people own televisions
1.4 Billion people have credit cards
850 million [...]
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