Canadians are having great text
The CWTA just released updated stats for March 2008:
- 1.4 billion text / SMS messages were sent in March alone! This is up from 1.2 billion in December 2007. We are definitely trending towards 20 billion for the year (that would be double 2007 numbers)
- 42% of messages sent from unique individuals – up from 37% in September 2007. This is really significant because it means the same people aren’t just texting more… we are actually increasing adoption & usage as a whole.
With reasonable data plans finally becoming available in Canada (as low as $7 / month for unlimited on a non-PDA device), we should be expecting huge increases in the mobile web /mobile widgets this year as well.
