Mobile Instant Messaging will cross 1.3 Billion Users by 2016

Juniper Research, in a recent report has projected that the number of mobile instant messaging (IM) users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016, marking a 300% increase from 2010. The growth is expected to be driven by the continued growth of services like AOL’s AIM, Blackberry Messenger, Microsoft’s Windows Live, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger and Apple’s iMessage.

Increase smartphone adoption, low-cost data packages and the development of high speed mobile networks by the service providers are the key factors to thank for the impressive growth of mobile IM.

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