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To: engineer who wrote (1110)8/25/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: w molloy  Read Replies (1) of 13582
 
SMS for non- techies

Short Message Services are provided by the network (as Engineer has
alluded. Messages are sent to a SMS Center were they are stored and routed.

In GSM, Messages can be up to 160 characters long, but are typically much shorter.

There is no such thing as a Nokia version.

I'm surprised that the CDMA providers don't offer it. In GSM SMS messages can have validity periods assigned to them (from 1 hour up to 1 week. This allows the SMS center to 'hold' messages for a period of time to optimise routing and channel loading.

w.
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