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SMS Technology
The SMS technology was created in
Europe, by GSM pioneers. The standardization process is lead by the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The SMS technology was
created to provide an infrastructure for the transportation of short
messages containing a maximum of 140 bytes (8 bit objects) of useful
data in mobile telecommunication networks. The transportation is done in the GSM
signaling path in traditional GSM networks, and as GPRS packets in
GPRS networks. The messages are composed using the PDU specification. An SMS is
a binary string, that contains all the necessary information to form the
message header needed for transportation and the message body that contains the
payload. The basic addressing scheme of SMS messages are mobile telephone
numbers called MSISDN.
SMS technology fact
sheet:
| Standard: |
GSM (ETS 03.40) |
| Transport technology: |
GSM Signaling Path , GPRS |
| Transport protocol: |
Short Message Protocol |
| Addressing scheme: |
MSISDN |
| Message description language: |
SMS PDU |
| User data length: |
140 byte (Concatenated messages can exceed this size) |
| Basic character set: |
7-bit SMS, 8-bit SMS, UCS2 |
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