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CWTA: Canadians sent 56.4 billion text messages in 2010

By on May 16, 2011 at 11:26am in Mobile News


The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) have released text message stats for Q4 2010 and the full year 2010. In Q4 Canadians sent 16.4 billion text messages which is an 15% increase over Q3 2010. In December 2010 alone there were over 186 million text sent per day and totaled 5.8 billion for the month – Christmas and New Years can probably be thanked for the spikes.

2010 text message stats increase to 56.4 billion and this represents a massive 60% increase over 2009 (35.3 billion messages). Just imagine if Twitter didn’t exist and what the number texts sent would jump to.

Source: CWTA

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Discussion

9 comments for “CWTA: Canadians sent 56.4 billion text messages in 2010”

  1. and this wouldn’t include BBM, What’sAPP, Live Profile or any other messaging program used. This number would be astronomical if you could include those stats

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    Posted by Rob | May 16, 2011, 11:39 am
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  2. and how many of them were sexts?

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    Posted by caplin | May 16, 2011, 11:58 am
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  3. This might also be why Robelus is increasing the cost per text. They’re trying to reduce the demand for a graph that’s growing exponentially and does not appear to be leveling off anytime soon.

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    Posted by Joel | May 16, 2011, 12:07 pm
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  4. I gotta text this to my friend

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    Posted by Steven | May 16, 2011, 12:23 pm
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  5. Somewhere out there is a teenager with ‘nubs’ where his/her thumbs used to be LOL

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    Posted by JSmith | May 16, 2011, 1:24 pm
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  6. Thanks to my unlimited talk and text plan from Wind for 25$ …..

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    Posted by Rookie | May 16, 2011, 1:28 pm
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  7. If these were all “pay-per-text” at 15¢ per text, companies would have made $8 460 000 000 of income just on text!

    At Bell and Rogers’ 20¢ per text rate, that jumps up to $11 280 000 000!

    Every Canadian sends an average of 139 texts a month. This costs no more than a dime per customer. Yet they charge up to $15 for “unlimited North American texting”! :(

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    Posted by Alex Perrier | May 16, 2011, 1:59 pm
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    • @Alex Perrier

      Based on your rates, if you send more than 150 SMS @ 10 cents, that’s $15. People that usually get this $15 unlimited package send hundreds or thousands of sms.

      If you send 500 SMS with this $15 package, it cost you 3 cents per message. If you send 1,000 SMS with this $15 package, it cost you 1.5 cents per message.

      Stop being cheap and blaming the carriers if you’re naive enough to stay on pay-per-use sms rates while sending hundreds of sms.

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      Posted by aka | May 16, 2011, 3:33 pm

  8. Of course, what kind of study is this anyway? The Big Three who dominated most of the marketshare,gives only unlimited texting. Texting is unlimited so people freely use how long they like, but local calls are restricted to a certain number of minutes. Of course people are afraid to go over they allowence and ended up paying more than their original service. If local calling was unlimited then this survey wouldn’t exist!

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    Posted by Ryan | May 16, 2011, 4:17 pm
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