Saturday, May 12, 2012

Facebook said responsible for killing text messaging | Internet & Media - CNET News

With Apple’s iMessage and Microsoft pushing Skype for IM as well as voice and video, this trend is only going to get worse for traditional SMS traffic

“For years, mobile operators around the world have been living large off the high traffic of SMS traffic. But the salad days are coming to an abrupt end because of a change in user behavior that ought to leave Mark Zuckerberg quite pleased.

Many operators are increasingly losing SMS customers to Facebook, according to a research note put out Friday by telecommunications consulting firm Strand Consult. This is a simple zero-sum game in which smartphone users are spending more time hanging out on Facebook and thus left with less time to shoot texts to each other.”

Facebook said responsible for killing text messaging | Internet & Media - CNET News

1 comment:

aji said...

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