Americans send twice as many SMS than Europeans

Forget splashy video, music and games; text messaging will continue to be the "cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come," according to a new report from Portio Research via The Washington Post.

The mobile messaging market is expected rake in $130 billion in revenues by the end of the year, and is on pace to climb to $224 billion by 2013.

At that level, mobile messaging will make up 60 percent of all non-voice service revenues.

At least some of those increased revenues might be due to the higher price of a text message and operators' push to encourage more bundled services at the point of sale.

Interestingly enough, although the U.S. is considered late to the SMS party, Americans now send double the number of messages that Europeans average each month.

emily | 8:37 AM | Random Stats |
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