History of Short Message Service

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Changed: 1c1

Short Message Service (SMS) is a service made available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages between mobile phones.

Short Message Service (SMS) is a service made available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages between mobile phones. SMS was originally designed as part of the GSM digital mobile phone standard, but is now available on a wide range of networks, including forthcoming 3G? networks.

Changed: 3c3

The message payload is 140 bytes: either 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 2-byte characters in languages such as Chinese, Korean or Japanese which need 2 bytes to encode a character. This does not include routing and other metadata, which is additional to the payload size.

The message payload is 140 bytes: either 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 2-byte characters in languages such as Chinese, Korean or Japanese when encoded to use 2 bytes to encode a character (see Unicode). This does not include routing and other metadata, which is additional to the payload size.

	Revision 8 . . (edit) November 19, 2001 1:30 am by The Anome [clarification re Unicode, link]
	Revision 7 . . November 19, 2001 12:07 am by The Anome [note re origins of SMS, 3G networks]
	Revision 6 . . November 19, 2001 12:00 am by The Anome [Added external link to SMS forum]
	Revision 5 . . November 18, 2001 11:55 pm by The Anome
	Revision 4 . . (edit) November 18, 2001 11:51 pm by The Anome [captialised name]
	Revision 3 . . (edit) October 9, 2001 10:16 pm by Drj [links]