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Article: Nearly 93 percent of text messages delivered successfully. (News).
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- RCR Wireless News
- Article date:
- January 20, 2003
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SAN MATEO, Calif.--About 7 percent of all text messages in the United States do not reach their destination, according to a new study from Keynote Systems, a finding that comes as many operators have installed text messaging interoperability and are looking to boost usage numbers.
More than 1 billion text messages were sent across the country in June, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Keynote found that 92.5 percent of those messages were sent successfully.
"If we calculate that out of 30 million messages as many as 10 percent are lost, the projection for next year could represent a staggering revenue loss for the ...