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Mobile phone messaging using SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet. There are 3 times as many active users of SMS as there are total number of personal computers on the planet. The total active user base of SMS is more than 2.5 times larger than the total unique user base of email. At 3.6 Billion active users, SMS text messaging is now used by 78% of all mobile phone subscribers - and more amazingly, SMS is used now by 53% of the total population of planet Earth. The planet sent...
Of the 1.07 Trillion dollars, 865 Billion dollars is service revenues and 205 Billion is hardware. The service revenues split so that 615 Billion dollars is voice call revenue; 153 Billion dollars is mobile messaging revenue; and 98 Billion dollars is non-messaging 'mobile data' revenues. Of the hardware income, 160 Billion dollars is handset sales and 45 Billion dollars is network infrastructure. Of the mobile messaging 113 B dollars is earned by SMS text messaging and 29 Billion dollars by MMS messaging. The mobile...
The mobile industry has now 4.6 Billion active subscriptions. Note that the planet as 6.8 Billion people. And while most in the Industrialized World have TV sets, PCs and internet access - those are not normal for most people on the planet. So for contrast - on the planet there are 1.2 Billion PCs of any kind including netbooks; 1.6 Billion TV sets, 1.7 Billion Internet users (including those who access at an internet cafe, or via a mobile phone); and 3.9 Billion FM radio receivers. But 4.6 Billion mobile phone subscriptions...
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