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reporting that based on Gartner Dataquest research, SMS message traffic will peak at around 168 million messages in 2003 with mobile messaging revenue moving to $22.3 billion USD in 2006 from $13.4 billion USD last year. The high growth comes mainly from the current expectations that MMS will be larger than SMS as mentioned by Per Lindblad, head of Ericsson's MMS unit, to Reuters. Lindblad added that MMS stood a much better chance of emulating the runaway success of SMS than WAP. Industry analysts only expect a significant impact from MMS around 2003, when MMS-capable handsets appear in the mid- to-lower price range.">

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	SMS, MMS are moneymakers	By Oliver Thylmann, Tuesday 4 June 2002

Reuters is reporting that based on Gartner Dataquest research, SMS message traffic will peak at around 168 million messages in 2003 with mobile messaging revenue moving to $22.3 billion USD in 2006 from $13.4 billion USD last year. The high growth comes mainly from the current expectations that MMS will be larger than SMS as mentioned by Per Lindblad, head of Ericsson's MMS unit, to Reuters. Lindblad added that MMS stood a much better chance of emulating the runaway success of SMS than WAP. Industry analysts only expect a significant impact from MMS around 2003, when MMS-capable handsets appear in the mid- to-lower price range.