Analysis has published a research report:Where Next For Mobile Messaging?
The report forecasts:
-revenues growing from USD31 billion in 2002 (USD13 billion in Western Europe) to USD69 billion by 2007 (USD25 billion in Western Europe), provided that operators take immediate action to drive service growth and control cannibalisation of existing revenues,
-total messaging volumes, comprising SMS, MMS and mobile instant messaging/email, will quadruple from 670 billion in 2002 (131 billion in Western Europe) to 2600 billion in 2007 (607 billion in Western Europe).