re: VZ - Wireless Data Tornado - Verizon Catches Up - 2 Way SMS messaging in CDMA
<< AT&T will be hanging onto the cliff with its fingernails re: data, no? >>
No. World Class come 2005.
They certainly have a pot full of technologies to clean up in the interim though.
A legacy mess, but strong underpinnings both in spectrum, and (although it might not be apparent - data services.
They were smart to bite the bullet.
<< Sprint will do fine. Verizon will do fine. Nextel (if this happens) will do fine >>
Nextel - IF then yes.
Sprint's done a great job in many respects. There task is the easiest because they have single technology in single frequency and Oliver Valente has been with them from day one.
The recent spectrum swap with AWS will help their coverage problem (reason I don't use them) as will picking up a few licenses in the reauction.
They remain very insular in many respects and are doing little about national or international internetworking - at least from what is apparent. This could hurt them big when going up against Verizon & AWS, but the 3 are overall stronger than Cingular which has a mess bigger that AWS to overcome.
Meantime Verizon's making progress.
Obviously a little Vodafone influence here.
This is a big milestone.
Verizon Wireless Launches Two-Way SMS
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More here:
news.verizonwireless.com
A little "Messaging" Primer Below:
Messaging Services
SMS - Short Message Service (SMS)
The Short Message Service (SMS) is the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile telephones. The text can comprise of words or numbers or an alphanumeric combination. SMS was created as part of the original GSM Phase 1 standard. The first short message is believed to have been sent in December 1992 from a Personal Computer (PC) to a mobile phone on the Vodafone GSM network in the UK. Each short message is up to 160 characters is length when Latin alphabets are used, and 70 characters in length when non-Latin alphabets such as Arabic and Chinese are used. 15 Billion SMS or ESMS messages are now sent each month in GSM alone. SMS messaging growth is increasing exponentially.
EMS - Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) is the ability to send a combination of simple melodies, pictures, sounds, animations, modified text and standard text as an integrated message for display on an EMS compliant mobile phone. There are many different potential combinations of these media. For example, when an exclamation mark appears in the enhanced message, a melody could be played. A simple black and white image could be displayed along with some text and this sound effect. Nokia pioneered EMS with its proprietary but open "Nokia Smart Messaging".
Internet E-Mail
Corporate E-Mail
MMS - Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is as its name suggests the ability to send messages comprising a combination of text, sounds, images and video to MMS capable handsets. In UMTS, SMS will not be a standalone service but part of multimedia messaging.
National & International Messaging Internetworking
The additional of interworking between network operators who are competing the same geographical market gives customers to both networks the opportunity to use SMS in the same way as they do voice. Just as they can make a voice call to each other's phones, so too can they send short messages to each other. Enabling this capability can rapidly increase the number of available messaging destinations, thereby increasing the value and use of SMS. As such, adding national SMS interworking can lead to an uplift of 50% in SMS message volumes. By this time, the total use of SMS on the network has reached "Critical Mass". There are sufficient regular users and awareness of and momentum behind the services. SMS has become an integral and important part of many customer's everyday business and personal lives. Facilitating international SMS roaming is also important, particularly in land-locked countries where border crossing is frequent, but also in a global mobile society.
Messaging Applications (Today):
- Simple Person To Person Text Messaging
- Voice And Fax Mail Notifications
- Unified Messaging
- Internet Email Alerts
- Ringtones Download
- Logo Download
- Chat
- Information Services (share prices, sports scores, weather, flight information, news headlines, lottery results, jokes to horoscopes)
- Corporate Email Alerts and Triggers
- Affinity Programs
- Mobile Banking
- Electronic Commerce
- Customer Service
- Vehicle Positioning
- Job Dispatch
- Remote Point Of Sale Credit Card Authorization
- Remote Monitoring <<
- Eric - |
