Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone Telecommunications saw declines in New Year mobile text message traffic due to growing use of free instant messenger applications such as WhatsApp and LINE, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times.
For December 31, 2012 and January 1, 2013, Chunghwa recorded an annual drop of 32% to 6.1 million text messages; Taiwan Mobile, a 15% decline to 9.35 million; and Far Eastone, a 10% fall to 10.8 million, the newspaper said.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
