FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The United States’ wireless short message service and instant messaging markets are poised to grow to 75 million and 63 million subscribers, respectively, in 2007, according to research analysts at IDC.
IDC expects wireless IM to become popular in the business market and widespread adoption of SMS to occur among consumers. Analysts predict revenues will grow to $1.9 billion for each service by 2007.
“Wireless users are discovering the utility of wireless capabilities like SMS and IM, which in turn represent a natural migration of existing communications behavior from the PC to wireless environments,” added Scott Ellison, program director in IDC’s wireless and mobile communications research program.
