Services to send direct messages Whatsapp and iMessage for the first time surpassed the income, according to a survey by Informa. Last year, sent an average of 17.6 billion text messages per day, while direct messages via apps amounted to 19 billion, according to the research firm.
Class=”paragraphIntro”> Next year, track Informatics, sent it 50 billion messages per day through apps, compared to 21 billion SMS. Nokia has even launched a budget phone, Asha 210, with a built-in button for Whatsapp. While free services benefit the users, so the trend will result in reduced revenues for the operators. According to Pamela Clark-Dickson, who is the spokesperson for Informatics, increasingly more operators see SMS revenues fall dramatically.
– But is still a lot of life in income. Apps’ users running smartphones, while consumers with feature phones are still using text messages, she says, to IDG News. analyst firm Ovum track to more than 23 billion dollars in revenue lost operators last year, due to increasing competition from mobile chat. 
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