SMS Usage Continues to increase

Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA, released some new SMS and data statistics at last week's CTIA show in Vegas. In June of 2005, over 7 billion text messages were sent across carriers in the US. This is a 154% increase over the previous year. Also, over 50 billion text messages were sent in the last 6 months, which represents a 96% increase over the previous 6 months. At the end of 2005, over 208 million people own a cell phone, a penetration of around 70%. Finally, wireless data revenues reached a total of $8.5 billion in 2005, a 86% increase over the previous year.