ZDNet Asia reporter Victoria Ho has a story about SMS growth based on findings from Gartner.
The numbers are truly staggering. Asia accounted for 1.5 trillion messages in 2007 out of a total of 1.9 trillion messages transmitted world-wide. The Gartner analysts are predicting growth of over 19% in 2008.
There are approximately 6.6 billion people in the world, and most of those don't have cell phones. Those that do, have very busy thumbs.
Add to the messaging total all the Blackberry users pushing email, all the IM conversations taking place on MSN, AOL, Yahoo and the like, and all the Skype and VOIP services, and one gets the strong impression that the human animal craves communication. The future of social networking seems secure, even as it evolves and mutates to take advantage of new channels.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
We do love our SMS
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In 200 million years, when humans have evolved with thumbs the size of their forearms, we'll know why.
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