CTIA-The Wireless Association announced today the findings of its semi-annual industry survey, which includes numerous metrics on the industry's continued positive growth and popularity.
The survey also found that more than 246 million data-capable devices are in the hands of consumers today. More than 40 million of these devices are Smartphones or wireless-enabled PDAs and more than 10 million are wireless-enabled laptops, notebooks or aircards.
Among the other findings:
- Text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 740 billion text messages carried on carriers' networks during the first half of 2009â€"breaking down to 4.1 billion messages per day.
- Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multi-media messages with their mobile devicesâ€"more than 10.3 billion MMS messages were reported for the first half of 2009, up from 4.7 billion in mid-year 2008.
- There are currently more than 276 million wireless users. This represents a year-over-year increase of nearly 14 million subscribers.
- Wireless customers using more than 1.1 trillion minutes in the first half of 2009â€"breaking down to 6.4 billion minutes-of-use per dayâ€"and six-month wireless service revenues of nearly $76 billion.
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