SMS Traffic In India To Touch 180 Billion By 2010

ZDNet Asia: SMS (text messaging) in India is expected to grow from 12.3 billion messages in 2004, to 180 billion in 2010, says a report by Portio Research. Mobile data last year contributed about 4.7 percent of the net revenues of mobile operators in India, according to report. On the other hand, SMS traffic in China is projected to almost triple from 226.4 billion in 2004 to 620 billion in 2010.
For the entire Asia Pacific region, the report predicted that the SMS traffic is expected to increase from 434 billion messages in 2004 to over 1.2 trillion by 2010. Revenues garnered from SMS usage for the corresponding period is estimated to grow from US$7.2 billion to US$15.1 billion. Portio estimates worldwide SMS revenues will grow to US$50 billion by 2010, driven by almost 2.38 trillion messages.
Globally, SMS has emerged as “the cheapest, quickest, easiest form of peer-to-peer mobile communication ever known and is still growing in all regions.”

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