Definition: SMS (Short Message Service) [Web and XML Glossary]

SMS (Short Message Service)

The GSM SMS is a very simple service for transmitting short messages (140 octets of user data) over the GSM network. It has become a very popular service for mobile phone users. The EMS and MMS technologies have been designed to become the predecessors of SMS.

Type Associations

Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
- Instant Messaging System

Associations

SMS is contained in
- GSM
SMS is informatively described at
- ↗ MobileSMS

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Bibliographic References

European Telecommunications Standards Institute: 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Terminals; Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS) [1]
European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS); Point-to-Point (PP) [1]
European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS); Point-to-Point (PP) [1]
European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS); Point-to-Point (PP) [1]
Suresh Chitturi, Daniel Coloma, Max Froumentin, Maria Angeles Oteo, Niklas Widell: The Messaging API [0.9]
Erik Wilde, Antti Vähä-Sipilä: URI Scheme for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Short Message Service (SMS) [0.9]
Erik Wilde, Antti Vähä-Sipilä: URI scheme for GSM Short Message Service [0.9]
Erik Wilde: Registration of GSTN SMS Service Qualifier [0.9]
European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Alphabets and language-specific information [0.9]
European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Alphabets and language-specific information [0.9]

Additional Information

Topic Creation: 2000-06-14; HTML Creation: 2012-01-22, 07:00:09
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