SMS stats and forecasts: $1 Trillion over next 7 years

Posted by on Friday, May 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

SMS is now more than 16 years old, and it has been an incredible success. Worldwide, Portio Research forecasts that there are almost four billion SMS users in 2011. Compared to this, we forecast that there are roughly one billion smartphones in use around the world in 2011, roughly 800 million mobile broadband subscribers and approximately 100 million mobile apps users.

SMS has generated revenues for operators worldwide of approximately $585 Billion USD since services were launched in the mid-1990s. According to our forecasts, we calculate that it is still set to earn those operators another $726 Billion USD over the next five years, to year-end 2015. MNOs should focus on the fact that SMS will generate more than 1 TRILLION USD over the next seven years. In 2010, we estimate that SMS generated revenues of $220,000 USD per minute all year for the mobile operator community.

Source: Mobile Messaging Futures Report 2011-2015. Analysis and growth forecasts for mobile messaging markets worldwide: 5th edition. Download PDF.

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