CTIA Wireless Keynote Points to Ongoing Messaging Growth

ComputerWorld reports from CTIA Wireless Expo in Las Vegas this week on CTIA president Steve Largent's keynote. He told attendees at the association's annual conference that the December 2007 total for text messages was an increase of about 157% increase over the previous year. "Text messaging continues to be enormously popular," Largent said.

The survey showed that in addition to text messages, nearly 4 billion pictures and multimedia messages were sent wirelessly for the last six months of 2007, which compares to 2.7 billion sent for all of 2006.

Wireless data services represent a major growth area since they still only account for about 17% of all wireless service revenues, with the remainder going to voice, CTIA's survey said. In all, wireless service providers had about $71 billion in revenues for the final six months of 2007. Wireless data revenues for 2007 were $23 billion, a 53% increase over 2006.

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