85% of People Never Use Text Messages

According to a recent survey in the US the number of people sending text messages from their mobile phones is at an all time low.

The survey, carried out by Ipsos, found that just 15 percent of mobile phone users sent text messages every week while 3 percent used the service monthly or less.

A surprising 82% of people questioned said they never used text messaging.

In India text message use is also undergoing a sharp as the cost of making calls is dropping – it seems that users prefer to call their friends rather than sending a text. The average number of text messages being sent is down 7% meaning the service contributes a much smaller percentage to cell phone companies revenues than previously.

Recently we criticized AT&T and other mobile phone networks for their text message charges being far higher than the equivalent data costs. Based on the findings above it seems like consumers are becoming increasingly fed up with high text message charges when all around them data prices are falling.