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Emily Tan
Feb 22, 2012

Mobile instant messaging cost telcos US$14 billion worldwide in 2011 - Ovum

MELBOURNE - Thanks to the increasing popularity of data-based messaging or social messaging, mobile operators lost an estimated US$14 billion in SMS revenues last year, according to technology analyst firm Ovum.

Social messegers like Apple's iMessage are cutting into the telcos SMS revenue stream.

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