Yesterday the SMS celebrated its 25th birthday!
The first text message (Happy Christmas) was sent on December 3, 1992, over the Vodafone GSM network in the UK from a Neil Papworth of Sema Group from an R&D lab using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone.
Since then Shorten Message Service has become the main source of communication in the world.
Figures suggest that it is only getting stronger with each person sending more and more texts per month. The average SMS’er sent 35 texts per month at the start of the millenium, now they send 357 messages per month.
And it’s now not only a way to keep in touch, SMS technology in 2009 generated in excess of $150 billion and that figure is set to reach $233 billion by the end of 2014.
So Happy Birthday SMS, we reckon you will be around for a while unless your big bro the email takes over with the introduction of the Internet to smartphones.
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