‘Instant messaging (IM) use is expected to increase over the next four years with a growing percentage of use by enterprises as well as the general public.

According to the Radicati Group’s recently released report, “Instant Messaging Market 2005-2009,” there will be 867 million instant messaging accounts by the end of 2005. By 2009, the research firm has forecast that there will be 1.2 billion accounts in use.

All told, Radicati pegs the value of the IM market, which includes the public IM, enterprise IM (EIM) and IM management vendors, to be $142 million in 2005 which will more than double by 2009 to a forecast $365 million.

In 2005, Radicati estimated that 13.9 billion IMs are sent per day (12.5 billion on public networks and 1.4 billion on EIM). As the number of accounts grows usage is expected to increase to 46.5 billion messages per day by 2009; 39.5 billion of which will be on the public networks while 7 billion will be on EIM.’

Read more at IM Accounts to Number in The Billions

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