96% of young Lebanese are texters

Link: Developing Telecoms – Ninety percent of Lebanese GSM users send SMS; youth market tops nearly 96%

SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As Lebanon’s telecoms market may well be on the way to liberalisation, Arab Advisory Group figures show that only 10% of GSM users do not use SMS – a figure that is barely 5% among the young.

Findings by the Arab Advisors Group show that 89.8% of Lebanon’s GSM users report using SMS, while among the young SMS use increases to close to 96%. The statistics are part of a major new Arab Advisors Group survey of Lebanon’s cellular users, an analysis into what has been called an idiosyncratic telecoms market that is slated for liberalisation and privatization.