[JDEV] SMS Transport

[Steve Kennedy]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:19:57AM +0200, Michael Emswiler wrote:

> Is anyone working on an SMS transport?  Though GSM isn't too popular in
> the US, it's widespread throughout the rest of the world ... and I think
> it was CNN that reported that over 2 billion SMS were sent in Europe in
> 2000 ... For those who aren't aware, SMS is Short Message Service I
> think for sending text messages between cell phones.

In the UK alone there are probably more than 600Million SMS's sent
per month. However inter network chargin is about to come into
force (about 3p per message) so lots of "free" services aren't
likely to stay that way.

SMS has a limitation of 160 chars per message, though some networks
and some phones support SMS concatanation.

There are also a wide variety of protocols to get messages into the
networks.

Steve

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