For the third year in a row, the number of SMS sent on 31st December and the 1st of January to wish the “happy new year” is in decline among the three incumbent operators. MMS are increasing rapidly, to enhance its wishes images, gifs or videos yet. For all that, even if the text messages are retreating, they are still very far in front of volume.
Orange state, according to the AFP, 7.1 million MMS messages sent between the 31st of December at 21h, and on the 1st of January 2h, an increase on a year of 8,63% while the volume of SMS decline at the same time from 6% to 94.9 million. In the past year, this drop was already 14%.
on The side of Bouygues Telecom announces nearly 3.4 million MMS (up 13.5%), while SMS were down almost 10% to $ 45 million. The decrease is less important in Free Mobile : -4% to 60 million. LICO has not yet given its figures.
If the MMS are becoming more popular, the instant messenger type WhatsApp should not be in rest, and are also competitors of size to the SMS. So far, the figures for use are rare. According to Bouygues, the applications such as WhatsApp or iMessage for the first time captured 60% of the volume of data sent in 4G on the day of December 31.
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