Bulk SMS has become an important part of our daily lives. Many companies are using Bulk SMS services to reach their target audience, update their clients about products/services status etc. From banks, retails stores, e-Commerce stores, schools, political parties, hospitals to hotels a lot of businesses are using Bulk SMS for notifications, reminders, and alerts.
You might also be using Bulk SMS for personal use or getting it from businesses you are a customer of but have you ever wondered who invented it? OR When was The First SMS sent? OR What was the first SMS? There are even some people who are using SMS but are not aware of what SMS stands for? Yes! It’s not a joke.
So, this time we at Dove-Soft Pvt.ltd. thought of sharing knowledge with all about Bulk SMS. Being a Bulk SMS service provider company in Mumbai Dove-soft Pvt.ltd aims at spreading and sharing knowledge as much as possible with its clients and in general as we believe sharing is caring.
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What is SMS?
SMS stands for Short Message Service
SMS commonly refers to "text message," is a service for sending short messages of up to 160 characters.
1. Bulk SMS Idea:
- In 1984, while enjoying a pizza in Copenhagen he pitched the idea of messaging. He is widely considered as the ‘Father of SMS’
- He is widely considered as the ‘Father of SMS’
- He never patented his invention and didn’t make a penny on the product.
- He thinks he didn’t make a “patentable innovation” but was the first one to notice the need and concept.
- He didn’t like to be called as the founder of texting and rarely gave interviews.
2. World’s First SMS:
- The world’s first ever text message was sent on December 3rd, 1992 from a personal computer to Orbital 901 handset.
- The message read "Merry Christmas"
- Sent by - Engineer Neil Papworth.
- Sent to - Richard Jarvis of Vodafone.
- Jarvis was attending his office Christmas party at that time.
3. 160 Characters:
- In the year 1984, Friedhelm Hillebrand (a German Engineer) & Bernand Ghillebaert developed the concept of SMS in the Franco-German GSM cooperation.
- In 1985, Friedhelm Hillebrand conducted experiments to determine the length for a text message and concluded that 160 characters were “Perfectly Sufficient”. Thus it became the standard limit for a single text message.
- A single SMS message has a limit of 160 Characters including spaces.
- Using emoji in single SMS reduce character limit to 70 because of the format changes to UTF-16 which has a limit of 70 characters.
- The maximum length of a text message is 918 characters including spaces.
- Twitter's 140 character limit came from SMS text messaging 160 character limits. However, Twitter expanded the limit for tweets to 280 characters in November 2017.
4. Bulk SMS Marketing:
- Bulk SMS Marketing means using SMS as a marketing channel to reach consumers.
- It is a type of Mobile Marketing.
- A direct, immediate channel which can be highly effective to increase customer engagement and drive conversions.
- Most text messages are read within very few minutes of delivery.
- There are different types of Bulk SMS Marketing Campaigns chosen as per business needs.
5. Bulk SMS Interesting Things:
- The iconic Nokia Text Message Tone is Morse Code for “SMS”
- In 1993, mobile phones got SMS when Nokia introduced the SMS feature on its handsets.
- Some Popular Text Messaging & SMS Abbreviations are :
- LOL - Laughing Out Loud, ROFL - Rolling on Floor, Laughing, BTW - By The Way, B4 - Before, AFAIK - As Far As I Know, ASAP- As Soon As Possible. BFF- Best Friend Forever.
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