Text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 822 billion text messages sent and received on carriers’ networks during the last half of 2009—amounting to almost 5 billion messages per day at the end of the year.  During the 2009 calendar year, there were more than 1.5 trillion text messages reported on carriers’ networks.  Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multimedia messages with their mobile devices—more than 24.2 billion MMS messages were reported for the last half of 2009. That’s more than double the number from the previous year, when only 9.3 billion were reported for the last half of 2008.

“With wireless connections now equal to more than 91 percent of the U.S. population, mobile broadband is pivotal to ensuring all Americans are ‘digitally literate’. CTIA’s survey results show the wireless ecosystem is constantly reinventing itself, and other industries, to be more productive and efficient. Our members have truly revolutionized and improved the way we live and work in ways that were unimaginable only a few years ago, whether it’s by providing new content and apps, new devices or new uses,” said Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA -The Wireless Association.  “Mobile broadband will increasingly play a vital role in people’s lives.”

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