Congratulations SMS!

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SMS turns 25. Some people think it's dead, but this dead person is very much alive. SMS has matured and grown up, it has evolved and adapted. In much of the world, WhatsApp, Line, or Telegram have become the preferred communication channel between individuals, but today, SMS is the preferred communication channel between businesses and individuals . It's universal, affordable, and reliable. No matter the user's carrier, mobile phone, or operating system, SMS will always reach them, and they can respond just as easily.

On December 3, 1992 , when some of us were still studying at university, engineer Neil Papworth sent the first text message to Richard Jarvis , then director of Vodafone. Although Christmas was still several weeks away, the text was " Merry Christmas ." Following the example of our predecessor, we at Altiria have also sent our Christmas greeting text messages to our customers . Of course, smartphones now allow you to enhance your text message and include emoticons; they allow you to include a URL and track who reads your text message; or they allow you to open a website with multimedia content, all of which makes sending a much more attractive greeting. In short, text messages are still as useful as they were 25 years ago, but they are now much more effective.

Who created SMS?
Now that the 25th anniversary of the first SMS is approaching, we're seeing many articles on the internet hailing Matti Makkonen as the father of SMS. We'd like to do our part to correct this mistake.

The origin of what we know today as SMS is a test document from a Franco-German R&D collaboration in October 1984, which called for the provision of an alphanumeric message transmission service to mobile users with delivery confirmation.

The standardization of SMS service within GSM began in February 1985, and Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert spearheaded it. Finn Trosby , Kevin Holley , and Ian Harris are the bulgaria phone number data people most responsible for creating such a successful technical solution that has allowed SMS to continue to be widely used after several generations of mobile technologies. The next name on the list is Neil Papworth , who sent the first SMS on an operational GSM network in 1992, the 25th anniversary of which we are now celebrating.