Archive for the ‘SMS’ Category

50 Billion Text Messages a Month & Counting

At last week’s CTIA show in Vegas, the president of the CTIA announced that based on a survey they did with carriers, the number of text messages a month in December 2007 closing out the year with 48 Billion text messages for December. Based on our estimates, we are well on track to reach huge [...]

April 11, 2008 in CTIA, Mobile Messaging, SMS, Text Messaging

Cell Phone Plans go Unlimited

In one week, every major carrier jumped on the all-you-can eat bandwagon. While most of them decided to offer unlimited voice plans (Verizon who made the first announcement and AT&T Mobility who filed suit), some went futher to offer unlimited messaging (T-Mobile) and Sprint decided to jump past everyone by offering everything unlimited…. all for [...]

February 21, 2008 in General, SMS, Wireless Carriers

The NEW Year – 2008 Predictions

Every year I start off by outlining my predictions. In the past, many of them have some true and some dissappoint. This year stands to do the same – hold many promises that I hope come to fruition. So here’s a quick list of items I predict will rock the world and others that are [...]

Mobile Messaging Growth – almost a billion txt msgs a day… and growing!

Over four years ago when we first decided to enter mobile space, sms/text messaging was barely a feature people used on their cell phone. It usually took 3-4 minutes to see if your phone had the option of sending a text message. Then it took another minute or two just to figure out if it [...]