Text message is 15 years old

By Editorial Team (Tuesday, 24th July 2007)

Yesterday saw the mobile phone industry celebrate the 15th birthday of the application behind the text message – the short message service centre (SMSC).

First launched in 1992, the text message was developed by firm Acision to enhance the reliability of the market and meet its demands.

The firm has now created an architecture system which allows for text management, having a capacity of 16,000 messages per second.

In 1992, the firm's development had only a capacity of 10 messages per second.

Despite the fast modernisation of the industry, text messages still provide a significant value-added service for operators.

Steven van Zanen, vice president of marketing for intuitive messaging at Acision, said: "Mobile messaging contributes significantly to the total mobile service revenues of almost every network operator on the planet and the phenomenal evolution of the SMSC over the past 15 years has been a direct factor to the overall success of SMS."

Various services are now available via text message, such as doctor appointment reminders.

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