Contributions from Finn Trosby, Kevin Holley, Ian Harris
Written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of SMS standardization
by the people who produced the standards, "Short Message Service
(SMS): The Creation of Personal Text Messaging, " describes the
development of the SMS standard and its ongoing evolution. The
standardization of SMS started in February 1985 as a part of the
creation of the second generation digital cellular system GSM, and
the 25th anniversary of the first work on SMS provides an
opportunity to review and understand how this service was
developed. The book also looks to the future, as a large number of
new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market
high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia
Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone and for
implementation in every new terminal is proposed.One of the only
books which covers the complete SMS genesis from concept ideas to
standardization of a first technical solution and its evolution to
the present day.Describes the service concept including the
limitation of the message length to 160 characters and explains the
rationale behind the concept.Based on existing and newly retrieved
documentation.Concludes that SMS has a long future since most
future GSM phones will support SMS as the only messaging service,
and so an SMS evolution is put forward.
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