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> SMS worth $50 billion 2010
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> SMS boom to continue
> Tony Halett
> silicon.com
> September 06, 2005, 14:55 BST
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> 'The cheapest, easiest form of peer-to-peer mobile communication ever
> known' will be worth $50bn a year by 2010, according to Portio Research
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> SMS messaging will grow in popularity so that the market is worth $50bn
> (£27m) globally by 2010, according to new research.
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> A report by Portio Research claims: "No other non-verbal form of
> communication in the world is used by so many individuals and is
> experiencing such a rapid expansion of its user base."
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> However, the report's authors see growth in the mobile messaging market
> more broadly — they forecast rosy futures on the move for email, instant
> messaging (especially in the US ), push-to-talk and even MMS, SMS' more
> feature-rich big brother, which should see similar revenues "by 2010
> from considerably less traffic".
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> The year 2010 will see some 2.38 trillion text messages sent, leading
> Portio to dub the medium "the cheapest, easiest form of peer-to-peer
> mobile communication ever known".
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> In separate news, Vodafone has announced large text, video messaging and
> data bundles aimed at business customers.
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> The mobile networks giant said its own research shows a 30 percent
> increase in the use of text messaging by business customers over the
> past 12 months.
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> The new bundles will be available across shared accounts within Vodafone
> Perfect Fit for Business tariffs.
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> Microsoft lines up BlackBerry challenge Vodafone and MSN IM:
> a taste of things to come
> Will IM be the focus of convergence? What does the future of
> communications hold?
> Users 'want advanced mobile services' Taking the SMS gamble