Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says
By BRIAN X. CHEN MAY 11, 2012
Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over. Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carriers, according to a report.
Strand Consult, a telecommunications consulting firm, released a research note on Friday saying that based on measured minutes of use, smartphone users were spending more time on Facebook and thus probably sending more messages with its service than they are text messages.
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