Sms

Short Message Service (SMS) is a service available on most digital mobile phones (and other mobile devices, e. g. a Pocket PC, or occasionally even desktop computers) that permits the sending of short messages (also known as text messages, or more colloquially SMSes, texts or even txts) between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones. Other uses of text messaging can be for ordering ringtones, wallpapers and entering competitions. There are also many services available on the Internet that allow users to send text messages for free. Global community system offering SMS and multimedia messaging services.

History

As with most other services and modules of functionality of the GSM system, no individual can claim the fatherhood of SMS. The idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was latent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. Experts from several of those communities contributed in the discussions on which should be the GSM services. Most thought of SMS as a means to alert the individual mobile user, e. g. Send SMS messages to anyone in the World. on incoming voice mail, whereas others had more sophisticated applications in their minds, e. g. telemetry. However, few believed that SMS would be used as a means for sending text messages from one mobile user to another.