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    My Text Message Usage Chart (on AT&T)

    Posted by Shane Becker on

    Inspired by Neven Mrgan’s post about how iOS’s iMessages has affected his text message use, I looked into mine.

    The AT&T site does not make it easy to go find historical data of message use. They do provide a chart of data use, but not SMS/MMS use. What I had to do was go through each month’s bill and find the values, put them in a text file, then create a chart. I used Keynote to bang out a quick and dirty chart. I’ve included the raw data in a table below.

    My Text Message Usage Chart (on AT&T) from 08/10 - 12/11

    Month Texts count
    08/10 469
    09/10 941
    10/10 723
    11/10 464
    12/10 743
    01/11 820
    02/11 1032
    03/11 2128
    04/11 1042
    05/11 1490
    06/11 1758
    07/11 1518
    08/11 952
    09/11 929
    10/11 689
    11/11 612
    12/11 307
    12/12 612
    01/12 307
    02/12 511
    03/12 232
    04/12 171
    05/12 284
    06/12 150

    Comma Separated Values

    month,texts
08/10, 469
09/10, 941
10/10, 723
11/10, 464
12/10, 743
01/11, 820
02/11, 1032
03/11, 2128
04/11, 1042
05/11, 1490
06/11, 1758
07/11, 1518
08/11, 952
09/11, 929
10/11, 689
11/11, 612
12/11, 307
12/12, 612
01/12, 307
02/12, 511
03/12, 232
04/12, 171
05/12, 284
06/12, 150

    So. When a few more of my friends A) get an iPhone 2) upgrade to iOS 5 and 3) turn on iMessages, I’ll be able to turn off my text messaging package. Get to it, friends.

    Update: 2012-06-19: added more usage data to illustrate further decline. 2012-06-19: removed my messaging package from my cell service bill. Now I pay $0.30 / message.

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