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Thursday, October 07

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Wireless Market is Healthy, Growing

By Brad

Speaking of increases, data from wireless trade group CTIA shows that cell phone growth in the U.S. is up 5 percent over last year. As the Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang reports:

In June 2010, users sent 1.8 trillion SMS, or text messages, up 33 percent from the previous year. Multimedia texts (photos and videos) also rose sharply, up 187 percent to 56.3 billion messages.

U.S. consumers are increasingly using smart phones and wireless-enabled gadgets like the iPod. Those devices were up 50 percent to 61.2 million. Wireless carriers said data usage was up 49.8 percent to 161.5 billion megabytes.

 

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