How Text Messaging Changed Over The Years

HOW TEXT MESSAGING MP CHANGED OVER THE YEARS HUH? OMG! TTYL LOL HEY! GLOBAL TEXTING STATS More than half the world's population now has access to mobile phones. While these devices - enable spoken communi- cation, many users (especially teenagers and young adults) heavily employ them for sending and receiving written text messages. Text messaging or texting is the act of typing and sending a brief, electronic mes- sage between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices over a phone network. The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS). SMS HISTORY OF TEXT MESSAGES 1920 - RCA Communications, New York introduced the first "telex" service. The first messages over RCA transatlantic circuits were sent between New York and London. The first-ever text message was sent December 3, 1992, by software engineer Neil Papworth, to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis, who received the message on his husky Orbitel 901 cell phone. It read simply, "Merry Christmas." Radiolinja became the first network to offer commercial person-to-person SMS text messaging service in 1994. Finland became the first nation where SMS text messaging was offered as a competitive as well as commercial basis. Ominipoint Communication- The first GSM carrier & first text messaging service provider in America launched commercial GSM in Germany, lead a team that introduced texting as a commercial service in New York City in 1996. America is rapidly catching up with over 79% active users of SMS. Local Terminology for referring to Text Messaging • North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines, - Text » Europe - SMS » Middle East, Africa and Asia - SMS - TMS, Message 22 SURPRISING THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE SMS Text Messages 3 74% 85% In Finland, Sweden and Norway, over 85% of the population use SMS In June 2006, 12.5 billion text messages were sent each month Text messaging is the most widely used mobile data service, with 74% or 2.4 billion out of 3.3 billion phone subscribers 4 In June 2008, 75 billion text messages were sent each month 5 6 72% 50% 80% Pew Research Center - (May 2010) - 50% of American teens send 50 text messages or more per day, making it their most frequent form of communication In Europe average number of users are 80% 72% of U.S. adult cell phone users send and receive text messages 8. Standard SMS messaging uses 140 bytes (octets) per message, which translates to 160 characters Young Asians consider SMS as the most popular mobile phone application *************.. 10 The term texting used as a verb meaning the act of mobile phone users sending short messages (back and forth) ......... . 11 12) In Philippines, where the average user sends 10-12 text messages a day. The Philippines alone sends on the average 400 million text messages a day, or approximately 142 billion text messages sent a year. CHINA In China, SMS is very popular and has brought service providers significant profit 18 billion short messages were sent in 2012 13 ) Research suggests that IP-based mobile messaging will have grown to equal the popularity of SMS in 2013, with nearly 10 trillion messages being sent through each technology 15 SMS is hugely popular in India, where youngsters (14 United States - CTIA December 2009, the 286 million US subscrib- often exchange lots of text messages, and companies provide alerts, infotainment, news, cricket scores updates, railway/airline booking, mobile billing, and banking services on SMS. ers sent 152.7 billion text messages/month , i.e 534 messages per subscriber/month 16 In the second quarter of 2006, US wireless subscribers averaged 216 voice calls and /9 text messages a month 17 In the second quarter of 2008, US wireless subscrib- ers averaged 204 voice calls and 357 text messages a month 18 In a Month Smartphone-owners ages 18-to-24 sends 2,022 mobile text messages and receive another 1,831. Despite the increase of texting alternatives, such as 19 Facebook and Twitter, there are 6 billion cellphone subscriptions worldwide, and text messaging remains king on this, its 20th birthday. 20) In 2012 More than 8.5 trillion messages sent - The next 40 trillion will be carried before SMS turns 25. 21) According to CTIA - CThe wireless trade industry group, in the U.S.A) - The Number of text messages sent and 22) Big countries like the U.S.A, India, and China account for a lot of mobile subscriptions (India and China each contribute a billion to the total. It's much easier to wire a small country like Iceland. received increased 3 percent to 2.273 trillion from July 2010-June 2011 and from July 2011-June 2012 WORLDWIDE TEXT MESSAGING USERS STATS/MONTH Spain – 50 messages per user/month. • France – 20 messages per user/month. • Ireland - 114 messages per user/month. • United States: 534 messages per user/month. WORLDWIDE SMS STATS O In Europe - 16 billion messages were sent each month. In the United Kingdom over 1 billion text messages are sent every week. o Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom – 30 to 40 messages per user/month. CELL PHONE & TEXTING STATISTICS ON TEENAGERS 74% 14% of US teens carry cell phones. 57% of US teens who credit their mobile device 57% with improving their life. The same percentage also views their cell phone as the key to their social life. 54% 54% girls who say their social life would end or 47% be worsened if texting were no longer an option. 42% This percentage was lower for males - 40% 35% 47% of US teens (nearly half) who say their social life would end or be worsened without their cell phone. 42% of teens who can text blindfolded. 35% of 16 and 17-year-old teens who say they text behind the wheel. This lower than adults however 4/0% of adults admit to texting while driving. SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TEXTING According to Portio Research SMS messaging is expect- ed to be a $150 billion-a-year industry in 2013, with carriers charging set monthly fees for unlimited tex- ting, or as much as 20 cents/text. According to Rice University : Women are twice as likely to use emoticons in text messages, but men use a wider variety of emoticons. 3 By using popular apps and services, including Apple's iMessage, Whatsapp users can send all the texts they want free of cost, but smartphone still only account for 50% of all cell phones, so text mes- saging is likely to be around for years to come. According to Guinness World Records, "Melissa Thompson" set the record for fastest text. In 2010, she took 25.94 seconds to type and send, "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." 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