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SMS. An SMS message written on a Motorola Razr V3. Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile phones exchange short text messages, typically transmitted over cellular networks.
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, desktops / laptops, or another type of compatible computer. Text messages may be sent over a cellular network or may also be sent via satellite or Internet ...
A direct-to- short message service centre (SMSC) gateway is a software application, or a component within a software application, that connects directly to a mobile operator's SMSC via the Internet or direct leased line connections. The Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) protocol is typically used to convey SMS between an application and the SMSC.
Wireless Emergency Alerts ( WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System ( CMAS ), and prior to that as the Personal Localized Alerting Network ( PLAN )), [ 1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices such as cell phones and pagers. Organizations are able to disseminate ...
When a user sends a text message (SMS message) to another user, the message gets stored in the SMSC (Short Message Service Center), which delivers it to the destination user when they are available. This is a store and forward option. An SMS center (SMSC) is responsible for handling the SMS operations of a wireless network.
SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service ( SMS) language, textism, or textese[ a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet -based communication such as email and instant messaging. [ 1]
Sprint Launches Voice and Text Usage Alerts Fulfilling its Industry Commitment New alerts will notify customers of voice and text usage joining existing alerts for data and international services ...
Concatenated SMS. In the cellular phone industry, mobile phones and their networks sometimes support concatenated short message service (or concatenated SMS) to overcome the limitation on the number of characters that can be sent in a single SMS text message transmission (which is usually 160). Using this method, long messages are split into ...