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Success 4 SMS - an Introduction to the Short Message Service

Overview The Short Message Service (SMS) is the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile telephones. The text can comprise of words or numbers or an alphanumeric combination. SMS was created as part of the GSM Phase 1 standard. The first short message is believed to have been sent in December 1992 from a Personal Computer (PC) to a mobile phone on the Vodafone GSM network in the UK. Each short message is up to 160 characters is length when Latin alphabets are used, and 70 characters in length when non-Latin alphabets such as Arabic and Chinese are used.

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Publisher	Mobile Streams Limited	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2001	Downloads	308
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, IM

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