July 23, 2008
Text Messaging In SC Soars Almost 500%
We gave a hint about South Carolina’s incessant appetite for text messaging when we asked back in May, “Do You DWT? SC Tops This List Too” (referring to driving while texting), and that may be one explanation for the 500% increase in text messaging throughout SC that we’re experiencing now.
Greenville is currently the #1 city in the state for text messaging, with numbers going from 19 million to 119 million from April ‘06 - April ‘08.
South Number of Text Messages South Number of Text Messages
Carolina Sent and Received Carolina Sent and Received
City City
April 2006 April 2008 April 2006 April 2008
Anderson 4,049,746 25,071,855 Greenville 18,940,327 116,337,769
Bluffton 1,201,672 7,415,188 Greenwood 5,399,356 27,274,291
Calhoun 2,461,166 11,315,133 Lancaster 2,911,462 17,395,918
Charleston 5,743,749 31,698,177 Myrtle
Beach 869,369 6,052,970
Cherokee 2,197,220 11,153,016 Oconee
County 1,169,231 7,695,988
Columbia 10,466,816 59,005,549 Sumter 795,009 4,228,361
Florence 2,395,952 12,209,855
“The Big City Wireless Use study allows our customers in South Carolina to get a true idea of how often they use their cell phones and wireless devices to do much more than simply place a phone call,” said Jerry Fountain, Verizon Wireless Carolinas/Tennessee region president.
Personally, I don’t see how they weren’t aware of it already from their bills, but that’s their finances, not mine. 
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