[Air-l] Each Dane sends 102 SMS messages per month (Intern)

[richard-seyler.ling at telenor.com]

We need to be careful when comparing the number of messages on instant messaging and via SMS.  In the IM world an utterance or a conversational turn does not have a cost attached to each time the author sends a message and thus a conversational turn can consist of several "messages", for example:


Hi  <carriage return>
How you doing? <carriage return>
It was good to see you on Thursday <carriage return>


All of this illustration may have been a single individual taking one conversational turn.

In the SMS world, since every time you send a message you have to pay, the conversational turn would have included the entire utterance shown above.   

Another issue is that while there are more IM messages than SMS messages, I would bet that there are more mobile phones than PCs in Denmark.  I have not looked at the PC adoption in Norway but I think that it is 70 or 80% of the HOMES.  About 95% of the PEOPLE have mobile phones.  

Rich L.


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Subject:	Re: [Air-l] Each Dane sends 102 SMS messages per month

Dear Charlie,

Only about 4 of the 5,4 million Danes have a mobile phone, and MSN 
Messenger is bigger with about 1.000.000.000 messages per month even 
though only about 740.000 Danes use MSN Messenger.

http://www.mediawatch.dk/8.0/naviger.asp

Regards
Jesper

Charlie Breindahl wrote:

>In the first six months of 2004, the 5.4 million Danes have sent
>2,958,045,000 SMS messages - or 102 per month on average. In the same
>period, the Danes sent 4,367,000 MMS messages.
>
>SMS messages are short text messages sent from and received on mobile
>phones. MMS messages are multi-media SMS messages, predominantly sent from
>camera phones. The use of SMS messages is predominantly a youth phenomenon,
>but SMS is increasingly used instead of phone-in voting and in mail-in
>competitions. 
>
>Just thought you'd like to know  :o)=
>
>Best,
>Charlie
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