They want to get beeped for everything from medical appointments to bill payments.
A survey by messaging aggregator Dialogue asked participants found that although only three per cent of people currently receive reminders by text – with 83 per cent coming through post – over 67 per cent would be happy to receive text reminders or alerts in the future.
Nearly 60 per cent would opt in, and just over 80 per cent of people said they would also be interested in a customer service text call-back request capability.
The survey supports a report by telecoms regulator Ofcom, which showed the UK as the second highest texting nation in the world as an estimated 83 billion SMS messages sent every year.
Guiom Peersman, MD of Dialogue, said: “The SMS phenomenon goes on, and here at Dialogue we are seeing a constant demand for innovative new applications."
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