Verizon users send, receive a massive 20 billion messages a month

Looks like Verizon Wireless customers have been going text frenzy over the past couple of years. Seven years after the network launched its basic text messaging services; Verizon Wireless customers have sent and received 10 billion messages in a single month in June 2007. Barely a year after, the number of text messages sent and received doubled up to 20 billion in February 2008.

“The volume of text messages being sent and received by Verizon Wireless customers is growing exponentially, Whether it’s sports scores, news updates, the latest weather forecast, or the ‘joke of the day’, text messages are a tremendous way for anyone to stay on top of what’s happening in the world,” said Mike Lanman, chief marketing officer of Verizon Wireless.

Knowing that its subscribers are going more into text messaging, Verizon Wireless has also made sure that their customers are well protected from wireless spam and unwanted texts that consume their mobile air time charges. Verizon has initiated three programs to counter text spam from victimizing their customers. These include Vtext.com, premium SMS blocking and V-Block.

With only three months into 2008, we are sure to see the number of text messages to go up even more towards the end of the year, as more and more good mobile phone packages and promotions are thrown in by Verizon in the coming months.

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