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By Preeti
 The technology of SMS enables two mobile phones to send and receive text messages between each other. Vodafone is the mobile company to send the first commercial SMS way back in 1992 in Europe. At the infant days of short message service system, messages could only be send through GSM mobile networks. Later all the telecom networks including the landline networks were included in the circle of SMS service facility.
Short Message Service actually refers to a framework that uniquely allows computers, or in this case phones, to communicate with each other without the need of a central hub. With SMS, phones can find each other, send short packets of information back and forth, and do it all without any central computer to guide them. But because the system does not rely upon fixed lines like a land based telephone system does, the amount of information that can be sent at one time is limited in size. This depends on the language spoken, but for English letters this typically means around 150 characters (Chinese and Japanese letters are limited to 70).
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