OTTAWA, Canada-The volume of text messaging in Canada has increased 98 percent since April-when the nation’s wireless carriers set up interoperable text messaging services-increasing the number of text messages sent in Canada to 20 million last month.
According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, interoperable text messaging services helped grow the market significantly. Interoperability allows users of one carrier to send messages to subscribers of rival carriers using only phone numbers. Bell Mobility, Microcell Telecommunications (Fido), Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility set up intercarrier text messaging through messaging company CMG Wireless Data Solutions.
Similar massive increases in text messaging have occurred in the United States since service interoperability.
