Text Messaging celebrates 15th Birthday

In December 1992, Airwide Solutions was responsible for delivering the first ever SMS. The message, delivered on the Vodafone network, said ‘Merry Christmas”and the man who sent it was Neil Papworth, who still working as an engineer for Airwide today.This innovation has surely grown a culture and a business globally. In fact, US-based Gartner, estimated that 935billion text messages were sent to and from mobile phones in 2005 and an estimated 2.3 trillion messages will be sent by 2010. Total global revenues from text messaging is forecasted to grow to US$72.5 bln in 2010 from US$39.5 bln in 2005.