With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?
Link: UK Users Send 99 Million Text Messages A Day - Digital-Lifestyles.info.
Britain remains in the grip of a texting mania as new figures reveal around 99 million text messages were faithfully banged out on little keypads every day during February.
Most people insist that I must have it wrong when I tell them we’re sending over 100 million text messages a day.
"Don’t you mean a month?" they ask in disbelief. Nope. A day!
At 5p a text, that’s a heck of a lot of cash.
Even 3p a text, it’s damn expensive.
Goodness knows what the mobile companies would do if, overnight, everyone swapped to Blackberry PIN messages at £10/month unlimited.
If Douglas and his team at Hotxt are able to get real media traction - to the point that the likes of Vogue and Heat magazine start talking about their service, then I think they could do real damage.
When I look at my 20 year old brother and his social circle, I reckon he and his 10-20 regular friends must blow at least £450-700 a month on texting. If one of them caught on to using hotxt and converted the rest…….
