The CTIA has been doing some research on Americans’ cell habits. In the past 6 months, Americans sent an estimated 740 billion text messages (that’s about 4.1 billion messages a day). Damn! No one really talks on the phone anymore. I try to balance between the two but that’s just me. Below are more facts on consumers and their cell phone usage.
* The average cell phone bill in June 2009 was $49.57, up more than a buck from June 2008; * The average length of a voice call was just 2.03 minutes, shorter than any other year since the CTIA started keeping records in 1988; * There are about 276,610,580 wireless subscribers in the U.S., up about 14 million from last year, and more than double the number in 2002; * The various wireless carriers (or at least the ones who reported figures to the CTIA) raked in $151.2 billion in revenue from June 2009 to June 2008—again, more than double what they made in 2002.
