Mobile advertising expected to boom! The annual market for mobile advertising is expected to amount to $11.3 billion by 2011. Source: Informa
In 2000, just 17 billion SMS messages were sent, in 2001, the number was up to 250 billion, by mid-2004, SMS messages were being sent at a rate of 500 billion messages per annum Source: wikipedia.org
At an average cost of USD 0.10 per message, this generates revenues in excess of $50 billion for mobile telephone operators and represents close to 100 text messages for every person in the world. Source: wikipedia.org
In China, SMS is very popular, and has brought service providers significant profit (18 billion short messages were sent in 2001) Source: wikipedia.org
The Philippines sends around 350 to 400 million SMS messages daily, more than all the SMS volumes of European countries, America, and China combined Source: wikipedia.org
Europe follows next behind Asia in terms of the popularity of the use of SMS. In 2003, an average of 16 billion messages was sent each month. Source: wikipedia.org
Users in Spain sent a little more than fifty messages per month on average in 2003. In Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom the figure was around 35–40 SMS messages per month. In Ireland 114 messages are sent per person per month. Source: wikipedia.org
The Eurovision Song Contest organized the first pan-European SMS-voting in 2002, as a part of the voting system. In 2005, the Eurovision Song Contest organized the biggest televoting ever. Source: wikipedia.org
However the recent addition of AT&T-powered SMS voting on the television program American Idol has introduced many Americans to SMS, and usage is on the rise. Source: wikipedia.org
Mobile phone networks have outstripping the growth of fixed telephony Source: wikipedia.org
Mobile phones now outnumber land-line telephones Source: wikipedia.org
Hong Kong has the highest mobile phone penetration rate in the world, at 127.4% in June 2006 Source: wikipedia.org
The total number of mobile phone subscribers in the world was estimated at 2.14 billion in 2005 Source: wikipedia.org
Around 80% of world's population has mobile phone coverage as of 2006 Source: wikipedia.org
World's mobile phone coverage is expected to increase to 90% by the year 2010 Source: wikipedia.org
At present, Africa has the largest growth rate of cellular subscribers in the world Source: wikipedia.org
African markets are expanding nearly twice as fast as Asian markets Source: wikipedia.org
In the United States, 50% of children own mobile phones Source: wikipedia.org
In fewer than twenty years, mobile phones have gone from being rare and expensive pieces of equipment used by businesses to a pervasive low-cost personal item Source: wikipedia.org
The UK now has more mobile phones than people Source: wikipedia.org
A mobile culture has evolved, where the phone becomes a key social tool Source: wikipedia.org
The number of mobile carrier contracts has been risen in Europe from 592 million in 2004 to 697 million in 2005 Source: bitkom.org
World-wide the number of signed mobile carrier contracts have exceeded Source: bitkom.org
the 2 billion mark in 2005. The growth rate of 25 % exceeded again the rate of 2004. Source: bitkom.org
Statistically every third human is now able to carry out mobile phone calls. Source: bitkom.org
In 2007 the signed number of mobile carrier contracts is expected to exceed the 3 billion mark. Source: bitkom.org Today the text message service represents 10 to 15 percent of mobile operators' revenues and is the most profitable mobile service. Source: Airwidesolutions
By end of 2005, the annual number of short messages sent in the world should pass the one trillion mark... and it is still growing Source: Airwidesolutions
In some countries, SMS represents as much as 30 percent of total traffic. Source: Airwidesolutions
For MMS to continue to grow from $2.2 billion in 2005 to a predicted 13.9 billion in 2009 mobile operators will need to deliver a better user experience and facilitate the introduction of new and exciting multimedia content. Source: Airwidesolutions
Recent research from CTIA predicts SMS growth from 900 billion in 2005 to over 1.5 trillion by 2008 Source: cognections.typepad
U.S. subscribers sent a total of 48.7 billion SMS messages in the last six months of 2005 (50% increase from the first six months of 2005) Source: ft.com
40% of cell phone users now (2006) use text messaging. (up from 25% in 2003) Source: ft.com
As of July 2006, over 10 billion text messages are sent every month – and that number has grown by 250% each year for the last two years Source: cellsigns
SMS is the only universal mobile platform for the masses. It does not require special equipment as it is already available on over 98% of all cell phones. Source: cellsigns
In 2005 the number of text users in the U.S. amounted to 68.7 million! Source: cellsigns
About 79% of the US citizens own a mobile phone Source: cellsigns
Every 6 months since the launch of the CSCA (June 2003) SMS traffic volumes have increased at least 37% in the U.S. Source: cellsigns
Currently over 8mm text messages are being sent each month and experts project it to grow to 80 billion a month in 2008 Source: cellsigns
