Monday 3 December 2012

Happy Anniversay Dear SMS.. 03.12.12


Happy Anniversay Dear SMS!

Text Messaging
SMS (Short Message
services) is successfully
celebrating its 20th
birth anniversary today.
The service, which
started on December 3,
1992 has gone through
metamorphosis and is
now adding new
features to it with
newer technology
introduction.

The first SMS was sent
from a computer to a
mobile phone on
December 3, 1992,
delivering the message:
"Merry Christams". Since
then technological up-
gradations and
technology changes
have brought a
remarkable changes in
their formats.

Here are some facts related to
it, you may find useful
and interesting.

- Currently, 4 billion
phones are in use that
are enabled to send and
receive text messages.

- Finland was first to
introduce commercial
SMS service by
Radiolinja, offered to
consumers as person-to-
person text messaging
in 1993.

- Nokia was the first one
to offer GSM phone line
in 1993 supported user-
sending of SMS text
messages.

- SMS began at slow
growth rate with its
customers in 1995
sending only 0.4
messages per GSM
customer per month.
Till 2010, 6.1 trillion
(193000 SMS per
second) SMS text
messages were sent.

- A major commercial
industry, earning $114.6
billion in 2010.
- In June 2012, Everloop
released EverText, first
SMS integration
compliant with (COPPA)
Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act

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