The second set of questions regarding text messages weredesigned to identify the reasons for which respondent would behappy to receive texts (Table 2). All reasons, apart from mobile tick-eting (mean 3.65) and appointment and travel alerts (mean 3.56)provoked a relatively negative response. Alerts regarding competi-tions (mean 1.75) and shopping sites (mean 2.16) were particularlyunwelcome. Overall, this data confirms that the general dislikeof text message based marketing communication extended acrossmost types of messages and alerts. This is consistent with theirattitudes towards their mobile phone (see Table 3).