Why not? Because, the NY Times reports, the vast majority of cellphone users apparently don’t use text messages.
In the United States, for example, 82 percent of cellphone owners said that they never used text messaging, 3 percent said that they used it monthly or less, and 15 percent said that they used it every week or even more.
The numbers come from a survey conducted by Ipsos MediaCT.
Granted, folks who go out and buy the iPhone 3G will doubtless be more likely to use SMS than the average cellphone customer.
But if the overall numbers say that 4 out of 5 Americans don’t use SMS at all, even a tech-savvy subset like iPhone users will have a fair number of people who have no interest in text messages and don’t care about the high fees AT&T plans to charge for them.
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