All Interesting Facts About Text Messaging Or Sms Service With Insights Of Bulk Sms

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We all are very aware of messaging services provide our telecommunication service providers let me take you in the past where these services were in the phase of development and research. It's been more then twenty five years for organised sms service and initially it was the joint effort of Germany and France. The first sms send by Neil Papworth to his friend wishing " Happy Christmas" over a Vodaphone network on December 3, 1992. In the early phase of sms service development there was not any particular billing system so early phase of sms service was a bit slow but after that this service is most value generating service after voice call to any telecommunication service provider.

We all know that text message is limited to 160 characters in most of the countries but why so ? Let me tell you - " In 1985 Friedhelm Hillebrand was to decided the length of sms service or text messaging service limits. There was a need for intensive market analysis but they adopted a different approach and this approach was to count the letters on the post cards. They found that the average number to letters to any post card was 160 so ...
... it was decided that the length of any text messaging service will be 160 characters including spaces.

Now text messaging has became the part of our telecommunication activities and almost every age group uses the text messaging services for different purposes. Because of its wide spread reach text messaging is also a medium of business communication and advertisement. Many businesses use messaging service to promote their business and many organisations use text messaging service as an integral part of business promotion.

All the messages used in sms marketing or in some business process normally have very high volume and therefore it is not possible to send such type of messages using a mobile phone. To send messages in bulk normally a computer is used therefore sometime such campaigns are also referred as text from computer campaign. Another big issue is to create a brand name using a computer message system. Normally people have many types of messages and if they receive much more promotional messages their tendency is to ignore such messages to over come this issue sms short code can be used.

Normally the length of any mobile number is around 10 digits and it is very difficult to remember mobile numbers to solve this issue sms short code can be used as sms short code is a very small (Often 4-5 character long) text code which replaces your 10 digit mobile numbers. Short code is very useful in creating a brand recognition and awareness campaign as people start associating short code with the brand itself.

To send messages via computer you need to have a sms gateway. Sms gateway is your online portal to send or receive messages and often there is no quantity limit. Infect more you use less you pay. Telecommunication service providers offer sms gateway services to sms agencies and bulk sms providing companies. sms gateway acts like a port where you can log in and can start messaging by simple GUI work interface.

The Text messaging gateway Gateway receives messages from your SMS software application and translates it into whichever ‘protocol’ your recipients’ carrier uses. Different Text short code providers have differing capabilities, it’s important to be clear about the type of you need.