SMS Will Come To The US

Business 2.0 has an article arguing that even though Americans don’t use SMS (text messaging) it’s just a matter of time…interestingly it focuses on the entrepreneurial possibilites of SMS, and almost makes it sound like the US will be the one country where commercial use of SMS will be bigger than P2P. Then again, it is a business magazine…
“Some skeptics think the overseas ardor for SMS is a quirk, somehow tied to a foreign nuttiness for cell phones, but they’re wrong. Instead, it’s a leading indicator of what will happen in the United States. Rather than substituting for PC-based communication, as it does in poorer countries, mobile messaging Stateside will untether commerce, social networks, and other applications originally tied to PCs.”

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