The APN defines the services such as wireless application protocol ( WAP ) access, short message service ( SMS ), multimedia messaging service ( MMS ), and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.

All ships of the Imperial Navy were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff ( His Majesty's Ship ).

The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging as well as the user activity itself in many parts of the world.

SMS as used on modern handsets originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers using standardized phone protocols and later defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets.

The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system, and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed.

This concept was instrumental for the implementation of SMS in every mobile station ever produced and in every network from early days.

SMS was considered in the main GSM group as a possible service for the new digital cellular system.

WP4 created a Drafting Group Message Handling ( DGMH ), which was responsible for the specification of SMS.

MAP Phase 2 expanded support for SMS by introducing a separate operation code for Mobile Terminated Short Message transport.

The Short Message Peer-to-Peer ( SMPP ) protocol is a telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centers and / or External Short Messaging Entities.

The site has ceased operation according to Cormac Long, former technical moderator and webmaster for the SMS Forum.

It featured a lower resolution screen than the SMS, but allowed for a larger color palette.

Because of the similarities between the SMS and the Game Gear, it was fairly easy for SMS games to be ported to Game Gear cartridges ; the Master Gear Converter, released during the system's lifetime, even allowed original SMS cartridges to be played on the Game Gear directly.

Malaria Clinic in Tanzania helped by Extreme Blue # Extreme Blue Projects | SMS for Life program

* October 23 – WWI: Torpedoing of the armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only three men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War.

ALE is most commonly used for hooking up operators for voice contacts on SSB ( single sideband modulation ), HF internet connectivity for email, SMS phone texting or text messaging, real-time chat via HF text, Geo Position Reporting, and file transfer.

An accessory was also introduced at the same time called Iridium Axcesspoint which, when connected to a 9555 or Extreme phone, creates a Wi-Fi hotspot for smartphone email, SMS and web connections.

There is a Web / e-mail to SMS gateway which enables messages to be sent from the Internet or an e-mail account to Iridium handsets for free.

Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.

* Motorola 9522 — Last Motorola transceiver, supports outgoing SMS but no SBD.

The phone supports SMS and MMS messaging.

Cyclos can be accessed trough the web but also supports mobile phones ( WAP / SMS ) and POS ( Point Of Sale ) devices.

It supports GSM, SMS, MMS, HSCSD, GPRS, and SyncML.

The phone also supports WAP 1. 1, SMS, HSCSD, and T9 predictive text input.

This brevity gave rise to an informal abbreviation scheme sometimes called Textese, with which 10 % or more of the words in a typical SMS message are abbreviated.

The following year in 1992, the first short messaging service ( SMS or " text message ") message was sent and Vodafone UK and Telecom Finland signed the first international roaming agreement.

An SMS message being received

A new network element required was a specialized short message service center, and enhancements were required to the radio capacity and network transport infrastructure to accommodate growing SMS traffic.

July 31, 2007-The SMS Forum, a non-profit organization with a mission to develop, foster and promote SMS ( short message service ) to the benefit of the global wireless industry will disband by July 27, 2007

Cell phone customers can even have their local forecast sent to their mobile handsets from TWC via SMS by sending a text message with their ZIP code to 42278 which spells 4cast.

Other uses include number translation, local number portability, prepaid billing mechanisms, short message service ( SMS ), and a variety of other mass market services.

Telstra Payphones are regulated at 50 cents a local call by law and some payphones also have the ability to send SMS messages at 20 cents a message.

Some vehicles and vessels are equipped with hardware that is able to automatically send an SMS text message when a particular event happens, such as theft or anchor drift.

Since mid 2009 there is also an € 0. 11 ( excluding tax ) maximum price for SMS text message included into this regulation.

The consumer sends a payment request via an SMS text message or an USSD to a short code and a premium charge is applied to their phone bill or their online wallet.

# Security-The SMS / USSD encryption ends in the radio interface, then the message is a plaintext.

An SMS " control message " containing the URL of the content is then sent to the recipient's handset to trigger the receiver's WAP browser to open and receive the content from the embedded URL.

Other numbers beginning with 19 are generally used for premium rate short message service ( SMS ) services on mobile phones.

Vendtxt Vending Inc. developed and deployed vending machines allowing customers to purchase products through an SMS ( text ) message.

The sender of a text message is known as a texter, while the service itself has different colloquialisms depending on the region: it may simply be referred to as a text in North America, Australia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom, an SMS in most of mainland Europe, and a TMS or SMS in the Middle East and Asia.

SMS messaging was used for the first time was on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group ( now Airwide Solutions ), used a personal computer to send the text message " Merry Christmas " via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.

Standard SMS messaging uses 140 bytes per message, which translates to 160 characters of the English alphabet using 7-bit encoding or as few as 70 characters for languages using non-Latin alphabets using UTF-16 encoding.