Asia leads global SMS growth

The Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, will continue to lead the growth of mobile messaging worldwide next year, according to a research study released by Gartner.

"The analyst house estimates the 1.5 trillion messages sent by the region's subscribers this year will grow to 1.7 trillion in 2008, making up the bulk of messages measured across "major markets worldwide" including North America and Western Europe.

North America is expected to send 189 billion messages by the end of 2007, a number that is forecast to reach 301 billion in 2008.

Western Europe will send a total of 202 billion mobile messages by end-2007, and is projected to send 215 billion next year, according to the Gartner figures."

[via ZDNet Asia]

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