The age for SMS is 20 years

Dec 04, 2012, by admin

The age of SMS is 20 today (03.12.2012) SMS(Short Message Service)  is an mobile communication systems and works using standardized communication protocol that allow to exchange messages between fixed line or mobile phone device let us see the history about the first SMS was of sent over Vodafone GSM network in the united kingdom on this day only in the year 1992,from Neil papworth

Using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using a orbitel 901 handset the text of the message was  “merry Christmas” now we cant think without using SMS in our daily  life but the growth of SMS was of very slow with customers in 1995 sending on average only 0.4 messages per GSM customer per month.One factor in the slow takeup of SMS was that operators were slow to set up charging systems, especially for prepaid subscribers, and eliminate billing fraud which was possible by changing SMSC settings on individual handsets to use the SMSCs of other operators.Initially, networks in the UK only allowed customers to send messages to other users on the same network, limiting the usefulness of the service. This restriction was lifted in 1999.

Over time, this issue was eliminated by switch billing instead of billing at the SMSC and by new features within SMSCs to allow blocking of foreign mobile users sending messages through it. By the end of 2000, the average number of messages reached 35 per user per month, and by Christmas Day 2006, over 205 million messages were sent in the UK alone.thus the SMS is celebrating his 20th birthday and it will live many years Happy birthday SMS