Articles tagged with: Mobile Im and Text Messaging

Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging

Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium.  more

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European Mobile Instant Messaging To Triple In The Next Six Years

Mobile instant messaging (IM) adoption in Europe will grow from 8 percent (26.7 million subscribers) in 2007 to 24 percent (80 million subscribers) by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research. Forrester's mobile IM forecast is based on a survey of 22,000 consumers across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.  more

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Industry Seeks Successor to SMS

Wireless messaging is the most successful mainstream mobile data service to have emerged during the 30-year history of the cellular telecom industry. New research from Gartner shows that an estimated 936 billion messages were sent worldwide in 2005 via SMS. Gartner predicts this will reach 2.3 trillion by 2010. more

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