SMS or Short Message

SMS or Short Message Service is a revolution in the field of wireless world. The technology of SMS enables two mobile phones to send and receive text messages between each other. Vodafone is the mobiles company to send the first commercial SMS way back in1992 in Europe. At the infant days of short message service system messages could only be send through GSM mobile networks. Later all the telecom networks including the landline networks were included in the circle of SMS service facility.


If you want to know some technical facts about SMS service then you should know that a SMS could consist of 160 characters if the used character-encoding format is of 7-bit. Otherwise a SMS text could only consist of 70 characters if the used character-encoding format is of 16-bit Unicode UCS2. To dodge past the triviality of character limitation The Long Message Service is launched by which people can send a longer message by sending number of SMSs one by one. EMS or Enhanced Message Service is also introduced to add some colors of special effects to the normal SMSs.


Here are some of the facts, which make SMS so successful and popular around the entire globe. First of all you need to reply as soon as you get the SMS. You may read or reply the SMS anytime since it is stored in you mobile inbox. Secondly, you can send SMS to the switched off mobile phones. The receiver will receive the SMS through his handset right after he switches his cell phone on. SMS message also seems not to disturb a person when still he is busy in some work. Another fact is that SMS generally supports Reverse Billing System. Suppose you want to download a ring tone and you have to pay for it. Then you may download the ring tone from any recommended website and the cost of the ring tone is added to your mobile phone bill. And the most important and most accepted advantage of the SMS service is its low cost nature. It seems that the cost of sending an intra-operator SMS is considerably lower than the cost of sending an inter-operator SMS. Again cost rate of sending local SMS is lesser than sending cost of international SMS.


You must know some useful applications of SMS. The first application is person-to-person text message sending, which is already known to you. Mentioning other applications, you can download materials from Internet to your mobile phone using SMS codes. Some alerts and notifications also come to your mobile phone through SMS. SMS is an important tool for business management these days.


There are some cons of SMS too. Since the SMSs are stored in the inbox, any unwanted person could read your sent SMS other than the person to whom you wanted to send the SMS. If the receiver switches on his mobile and the validity period of the SMSs were already expired during the switch off time, the receiver will not be able to get the SMS.


Some online messengers launch the SMS facility too. The popularity of SMS is increasing day by day and will keep increasing despite of those little cons.
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