The online chat mobile phones, death of text messages

April 5, 2012

According to studies on the productivity of companies that provide mobile phone services, applications, internet chat generated a decline in SMS usage equivalent to 13,900 million dollars, which will increase this year.

As discussed by Ovum, programs like WhatsApp, Chaton and Blackberry Messenger generate users to opt to communicate via internet, for free.

These systems, besides the Facebook chat and MSN Messenger, are included in data plans offered by carriers, and thus are free.

Thus, in 2011 mobile phone companies were down d 13,900 million in regard to use of text messaging between mobile phones.

This figure is projected to increase in 2012, given the strong progress that WhatsApp is having on the cell phone. Over the past year, he composed 18% of the use of bandwidth in messaging.

A WhatsApp spokesmen indicated that the situation is viewed “from the perspective that we are providing a broad movement toward data plans, and institutions that offer these plans are the operators, so it will benefit substantially.”