The World around Texting

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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