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Texting through phone carriers a downward trend?

June 10th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

Looks like wireless carriers have something to be worried about. In the US cellphone market people sent and received more than 1 trillion texts in the second half of 2010 and this is according to CTIA which is a wireless industry trade group. That is an 8.7% increase from the last six months but it was however the smallest gain since texting became the thing to do. The big issue with all of this that Apple and Android are creating a new service that will let you text over the internet and bypass the carrier, which means if you can connect to wifi you can text to your heart’s desire and lower your monthly plan in the process. This will be a big blow to the major carriers if this comes to pass, with texting already on a downward trend could we it start to go down even more with these new texting technologies that will be on the horizon for Android and Apple? Only time will tell.

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