[Kipters]

In Italy, in 2005-2007 text messages were WIDELY used by teenagers in (like me at the time) too - they weren't free but really cheap (4000 for 2€/month) so pretty much everyone used them.

Then a couple years later... gone, replaced by WhatsApp.

[pmontra]

I remember that. Zero Euro is much better than two Euro so SMSes where dropped. We were paying for data anyway.