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3 unusual facts about SMS


RespOrg

While this data was originally maintained by telephone companies, the breakup of the Bell System in the 1980s and the introduction of toll-free number portability in 1993 required an independent operator maintain the SMS/800 database.

Toll-free telephone numbers in the United States

Canadian numbers are an exception as they are drawn from the same SMS/800 pool as other North American Numbering Plan countries, although the arbitrary distinctions between Local Exchange Carrier/Interexchange carrier, intrastate/interstate and the LATA structure are artificial US regulatory constructs which do not have direct parallels in Canada or any other nation.

The toll-free long distance market was opened to competition after 1986 and a RespOrg system instituted in 1993 to provide toll-free number portability between rival carriers using the SMS/800 database.


Acision

Acision is a privately held mobile communications network infrastructure company specialising in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such as Short message service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile internet browsing, Mobile Broadband and voicemail.

Big Book

The Big Read, a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Book" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone

Ebru Destan

She reached the top 6, only to be voted out in an SMS head-to-head with her close friend Özge Ulusoy.

ESME

Typical examples of ESMEs are systems that send automated marketing messages to mobile users, voting systems that process SMS votes (Pop Idol, Big Brother), etc.

Etiquette in technology

For example, Paris Hilton's Sidekick PDA was cracked in 2005, resulting in the publication of her private photos, SMS history, address book, etc.

Forex signal

Due to the timely nature of signals, they are usually communicated via email, website, SMS, RSS, tweet or other relatively immediate method.

Georgi Parvanov

Bulgarian Christmas is a musical event each year at the time of Christmas in which Bulgarian performers sing their most popular songs in the audience of the President and his wife, and other VIP guests, the event is TV-broadcast on the national channel BNT and funds are being raised by sms and bank accounts.

Harry Redfern

He was responsible for designing, in an imaginative and varied manner, a number of notable public houses in the Carlisle district under the auspices, as chief architect, of the Home Office State Management Scheme (SMS).

Irvine Spectrum Center

As a result of the structures, more space was open to build additional retail stores including as Nordstrom, Anthropologie, Jos A. Bank, The Saleen Store (Converted to SMS Motor cars), and Target.

ISMS

2-way iSMS, an interactive version of the traditional SMS text message

Leon Yohai

InternetQ was among the first few mobile content firms globally to introduce premium SMS services with top class telecom providers such as WIND, Vodafone and Cosmote.

Maxis Communications

They offer Prepaid data plans, call plans and SMS plans, Postpaid data plans, call plans and SMS plans, Devices, Wireless Broadband, Fibre Internet, International Roaming, MMS, WAP (over both GSM and GPRS) and Residential Fixed Line services

Megapass

Megapass features include TV-VOD (including movies and popular television programs), remote domestic video monitoring, SMS messaging, and local service 'directory' information.

Microsoft BackOffice Server

:includes Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, SMS 2.0, Exchange Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and Host Integration Server 2000.

Mobile marketing

In Europe the first cross-carrier SMS shortcode campaign was run by Txtbomb in 2001 for an Island Records release, In North America it was the Labatt Brewing Company in 2002.

MYtv Ukraine

Interactive television (ITV) is a new service catering for interactive games, TV questioning, on-air communication of programs, using the mail or SMS, predefined ability to receive news, play individual and network games.

Nokia 9300

All variants of the 9300 include multi-profile Bluetooth and IR for interoperability, the Opera web browser, a POP3/IMAP/BlackBerry Enterprise Server-compatible/SMS/MMS e-mail and messaging client, the ability to create, read, write and edit native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

Paul Coutts

Ahead of the 2012–13 season, Coutts along with 7 other players was told by the manager via SMS not to report to pre-season training as he was not in Westley's plans.

Public transport in Bratislava

Tickets for 70 minutes or 24 hours can be bought via SMS (Slovak mobile operators only), travelcards for 30, 90 or 365 days can be bought online at www.dpb.sk if customer owns RFID card issued by DPB or ZSSK or ISIC card with RFID chip personalized to use in DPB.

Sccm

System Center Configuration Manager, the name for the latest version of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)

Short Message Peer-to-Peer

Because of its support for non-GSM SMS protocols, like UMTS, IS-95 (CDMA), CDMA2000, ANSI-136 (TDMA) and iDEN, the SMPP is the most commonly used protocol for short message exchange outside SS7 networks.

Short Message Service

The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert.

Shortcode activation protocol

Shortcode activation protocol is a programming device that allows mobile phone users to send a short activation word to a premium rate phone line operated via SMS.

SMS banking

Depending on the volume of messages that are require to be pushed, means to connect to the SMSC could be different, such as using simple modems or connecting over leased line using low level communication protocols (like SMPP, UCP etc.) Advanced SMS banking solutions also cater to providing failover mechanisms and least-cost routing options.

SMS gateway

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.2 and above has support for sending SMS messages for free.

Yahoo! Messenger, accessible through a dedicated client application, or through a Web site (mail.yahoo.com) have support for SMS messages.

SMS language

Welsh journalist and television reporter John Humphrys has criticized SMS language as "wrecking our language".

Snapchat

A February 2013 study by market research firm Survata found that mobile phone users are more likely to use SMS for sexting, rather than Snapchat.

Super 5

The information may also be obtained from one of Maltco Lotteries' points of sale; and also by Vodafone's SMS Flash, Go Mobile's IOD, Go Plus' Tellme service, and TVM's teletext.

Thomas Haug

Haug's personal contributions included introducing features such as SIM cards and SMS messaging.

Treasuremytext

Microblogging and lifestreaming services that also work via SMS 'status updates' Twitter and Jaiku subsequently made SMS to web popular with a Web 2.0 audience.

Uutislehti 100

One of the newspaper's most popular features was a talk page where people could send anonymous or signed messages via SMS.

Von der Tann

Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, a Bavarian General who fought in several wars, for whom the SMS Von der Tann was named


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