Despite a doubling of the cost to send a mobile-device text report, users are still thumbing messages at record rates.

Wireless input is changing, and consumers are making it clear that texting is a favorite way to communicate, according to CTIA, a wireless organization based in Washington, D.C.

There were 75 billion messages recorded in June alone, about 2.5 billion messages per day, according to CTIA’s Semi-Annual Wireless Survey. That’s a 160 percent increase from the 28.8 billion messages

Each year the number of text messages has increased. Last December users sent 48 billion text messages, up from 19 billion in December 2006.

Steve Largent, chief executive and president at CTIA, said more texts were sent and received in the first half of that year than in all of 2007.

“Well, it is obvious Americans are still all thumbs,” Largent said in a podcast from CTIA’s […]

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