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by Karthikeyan Shriya, Kar

First you have to know some important facts and trivia about the SMS messaging service. Basically the idea of SMS messaging was come in the early 1980s. But this service was come to an effect in 1985 for and to GSM mobile handsets only. After that it became available for each and every telecom technology like CDMA, AMPS, Satellite phones and even Landlines too. Surprisingly, some online messengers are also providing the messenger to mobile and mobile to messenger SMS facilities. Basically SMS is a short message of at most 160 characters, which can be written by using mobile keypads in general. It can be sent from a mobile to another mobile. To overcome the limitation of the 160 character limit the Long message service is also there. Long Message service is nothing but the collection of some SMSs. Basically a Long Message of more than 160 character uses to divide itself in some 160 character SMS. Then each and every 160-character phrase sent one by one to the receiver's mobile phone. Generally all the digital mobile phones do have the feature of short message service option.

Due to the improvement of SMS some monophonic ring tones can also be sent through SMS using some special format. Later the scope of SMS was increased and the technology enables the man to send likes of pictures and video clips using GPRS system from one mobile set to another. But this service is named Multimedia Messaging Service or simply the MMS. But now it is possible to do something like MMS through SMS. The SMS can be sent in special text formatting in likes of bold and italics. Also some icons, animations, sound effects, pictures, and special ring tones can be sent through SMS these days. This type of Short Messaging Service is known as Enhanced Messaging Service or simply the EMS. According to the researchers this EMS service is the intermediate stage between the SMS system and the MMS system. But this EMS system seems to grab some rapid popularity!

Now, the following statistics about the Short Message Service seems to be really interesting. In 1995, the initial stages of SMS, each and every customer used to send a SMS once in every two and half month. Again, in early 2000s each and every customer was sending some 30 to 40 SMS in every month. Again some 9 Million SMS were sent among the mobile users in the very first day of 2007 that's too only in UK!

Short Message Service is too much successful due its low cost nature. Again you need not to reply at that instant when you receive the SMS. These are the some of the facts that makes the SMS really popular.

Some literature minded people do believe that the short nature of words will kill the art of literature some day. But to people, interaction is more important than the literature. So here is the high possibility the progress of the SMS system will continue.

Sending out mass text messages can be a laborious and time consuming task for anybody, and it is doubly frustrating when you have a million and one more important things to do. However SMS messaging can be a simple and effective way to keep in touch with your employees and employers. There are now a wide range of SMS messaging services that can be designed around your business communication requirements. With two-way messaging you can send and receive messages from almost any location. In addition you can maintain a full audit trail of the sent and received messages giving you the ability to track the data at any given moment in time. With features such as these in combination with auto-response messaging and forwarding to your email account there will be no excuse for miscommunication.

For executive businesses needing efficient forms of messaging there are hierarchical systems of control that can be implemented in to the service so you decide who has what power. With your own company and managerial account you can organise the distribution of information down to the finest detail at the simplest push of a button. For government services, county councils and local authorities this micro-blogging SMS technology has the potential to revolutionise the running of a city from traffic bulletins to flood warnings, you've never been more in touch with your citizens, you can save time, money and lives.

Whether you need to keep in contact with your employees or employers, customers or clients communicating with a designated group of people is now swift and proficient. They may be lost in the building, working from home or AWOL from the office completely you can reach all your staff from your PC desktop. Keep your customers loyal and more than satisfied by being ahead of the game with SMS posting. If you want to exclusively update your customers on the latest product or service to go live from your company now you can do so. Text messages are less intrusive than other forms of communication so your customer service reputation will be pristine. If you need to keep shareholders in the loop of significant business developments recently, then simply type up the message on your computer and send it out to the relevant recipients.

The cost management features of the SMS messaging can save your business masses amount of money, as well as time, the latter often more invaluable than the former. The price of text messaging is less than that of a phone call and with the correct SMS service you can manage the costs with precision. So whether it is for the corporate or public sector bulk mobile messaging has advantages across the board.

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