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On 7 April 2017, it was announced that Aldi Talk would cease all operations in Belgium by 6 June. [3] The cause of this decision was the coming in to effect of an anti-terrorism measure taken by the Belgian government, banning the sale and use of anonymous SIM cards , instead requiring the mobile operators to identify and register each of their ...
The software was originally developed in 2005 by Ken Banks for conservationists to keep in touch with communities in Kruger National Park in South Africa. [1] The 2.0 release is a deep redesign and is the first version to install a browser-based interface to the Java FrontlineSMS backend.
SIM Application Toolkit (STK) is a standard of the GSM system which enables the subscriber identity module (SIM card) to initiate actions which can be used for various value-added services. [1] Similar standards exist for other network and card systems, with the USIM Application Toolkit (USAT) for USIMs used by newer-generation networks being ...
A direct-to-mobile gateway is a device that has built-in wireless GSM connectivity. It allows SMS text messages to be sent and/or received by email, from Web pages or from other software applications by acquiring a unique identifier from the mobile phone's Subscriber Identity Module, or "SIM card". Direct-to-mobile gateways are different from ...
For GSM, UMTS and LTE networks, this number was provisioned in the SIM card and for cdmaOne and CDMA2000 networks, in the phone directly or in the R-UIM card (the CDMA equivalent of the SIM card). Both cards have been superseded by the UICC. An IMSI is usually presented as a 15-digit number but can be shorter.
The default is to use the 7-bit encoding described above, until one enters a character that is not present in the GSM 7-bit table (for example the lowercase 'a' with acute: 'á'). In that case, the whole message gets reencoded using the UCS-2 encoding, and the maximum length of the message sent in a single SMS is immediately reduced to 70 ...
On recent phone models running Android software, the phone will display a message saying "SIM network unlock PIN" or "Enter Network Lock Control Key" if network locked. Windows phones will display the message, "This SIM card can only be used on specific networks. Contact your customer service center for the unlock code".
An alternative to inbound SMS is based on long numbers (international mobile number format, e.g., +44 7624 805000, or geographic numbers that can handle voice and SMS, e.g., 01133203040 [44]), which can be used in place of short codes or premium-rated short messages for SMS reception in several applications, such as TV voting, [47] product ...