Why are we working so hard at Crickee?

5 Mio users last year Vs 34 next year
"There were about 5.8 million active mobile instant messaging users in Western Europe last year, according to a report by the consultancy Frost & Sullivan, which forecasts that the number will jump to 34 million by the end of next year."

Why Mobile operators will not succeed: 3 billion in 3 years versus 70b last year ....
"In 2005, according to Gartner, text messaging generated $70 billion in revenue for the carriers, which made a whopping gross profit margin on that part of the business of more than 90 percent, about double the margin for the business as a whole. By contrast, mobile instant messaging generated $55 million in revenue in 2005, according to In-Stat, though that is forecast to grow to more than $3.6 billion by 2009."

Dear user / reader, It is your interest to help Crickee to grow very quickly or you will have to pay 10p per message or 10£ per month for MSN on your mobile ...
via International Herald Tribune and my friend Ewan

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