Text messages growing out of hand

Posted by Vic Laurie
October 9, 2009

More and more people are sending text messages over their phones and wireless bandwidth is approaching a limit. Some 740 billion text messages were sent in the first half of 2009 in the U.S. alone according to a report from CTIA. Digital Daily notes these comments from the FCC chairman:

Consider these remarks from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, spoken Wednesday at the CTIA wireless industry convention in San Diego: “We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month. So we must ask: what happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks? The short answer: We will need a lot more spectrum. The biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis.”

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Communication, Consumer electronics

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