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Wow Darla you’re everywhere,

so sms is only a europen 15 year old technology. the us has had it for not as long. you know we’re a little behind the times. basically we in the us can look forward to copying stuff europe and asia has done 5 years ago for some time until our infrastructure can catch up. and once wimax is widely deployed most current services - wap, internet based, tv, radio wil be replaced. The biggesst problem we have is the speed (lack thereof rather) of our networks infrastructure. Because us was so heavily invested in ma bell, we overlooked building better more mobile, faster infrastructures. In the “less” developed (me big american) developed nations where the cot of building an expensive out of date landline system looked to the future and are killing us for that very reason.

The US will continue to heavily use SMS (VZW’s biggest month to date -both SMS and MMS) heavily until we can send other content to every carrier for the same cost and ease as the beloved SMS.

[...] 23 juillet 2007, l’industrie du téléphone mobile a célébré les 15 ans du SMS. Ce format, bien que dépassé, domine encore dans l’échange d’informations sur les [...]

In the United States, we are starting to see SMS/MMS Advertising. This will open more channels of better technologies and reaching customers. There were more text messages sent in July than there are people in the world. I think this fact speaks volumes about the impact of SMS/MMS.

International SMS and picture messaging without the need of a mobile operator.

I’d like to add my $0.02 to this which will hopefully also highlight efforts of companies such as ours to help evolve SMS texting and picture messaging in a new direction.

Clearly instant messaging on mobile phones has never taken off, the reasons might be that GPRS costs used to be too prohibitive or that users want to respond to SMS text messages in their own time instead of being available 24hrs.

Blitzplanet is a free-to-download SMS text and picture service which is installed onto a mobile phone.

Users no longer need their mobile operator for the delivery of SMS text or picture messages.

Blitzplanet sends picture and SMS text messages via GPRS/Internet first to their own portal and then to mobile networks worldwide.

Text messages cost just £0.10 per message and can be purchased in 50, 100, 150… credit packages.

A user’s phone has to be provisioned with GPRS (=Internet on your mobile phone).
Once installed they are guaranteed to save hundreds of pounds per year.

We welcome the advent of SMS in Iran. People here have been using it for the past eight years. Currently, the second mobile operator (www.irancell.ir) has introduced MMS and GPRS to the market. The General Inspection Office has issued a decree to the Incumbent and second operator to lower their SMS tariffs. At present the tariff is 140 Rls.(0.015 USD) for the incumbent. The GIO has ordered revisions to lower the tariff to 60 Rls. (0.006 USD) since they think that the cost to the operator per 1120 bits of message including airtime, routing and metadata overheads are about 6 Rls. (0.0006 USD).

15 years is a big period for the changes. And we see a lot of advantages of SMS. Today Its value is as crucial to the market as ever before. And you know I never thought where we as mobile users would be without SMS. And we will continue to heavily use SMS.

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