The second set of questions regarding text messages were designed to identify the reasons for which respondent would be happy to receive texts (Table 2). All reasons, apart from mobile ticketing (mean 3.65) and appointment and travel alerts (mean 3.56)provoked a relatively negative response. Alerts regarding competitions (mean 1.75) and shopping sites (mean 2.16) were particularly un welcome. Overall, this data confirms that the general dislike of text message based marketing communication extended across most types of messages and alerts. This is consistent with their attitudes towards their mobile phone (see Table 3).