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Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2009
SMS, almost coined as a term, refers to the acronym formed by the initials of the service called Short Message Service, which is available on all cell phones and according to models and the service provider companies also in some landlines or line telephones, through which you can send and receive short messages, better known as SMS messages. text or as the current language sentences, especially that of young people, texts or messages, between cell phones, landlines, as we mentioned, or other handheld devices that technology in constant evolution proposes us.
Although the system was originally designed as a standard part of GSM digital mobile telephony, in the Currently, it is available in an important variety of other networks such as, for example, the called 3G.
The SMS message consists of an alphanumeric string of up to 160 7-bit characters, whose encapsulation corresponds to a series of parameters, which are used to send and receive normal text messages, but these also allow you to include other types of content, such as giving a
Format special messages and chain multiple text messages to gain length.Basically, these messages are sent and received thanks to the SMSC or Short Message Service Center, which acts as the central storage of the texts until they are sent and to make the pertinent connection with the rest of the GSM network.
Text messages will allow both the sender and the recipient, in addition to receiving a message or being able to send certain information, to know what time it was. the text sent or received, the sender's number, or, failing that, the recipient, the number of the message center that originated the message, the validity of the message, among others issues.
Another issue to highlight about SMS is that Being extremely short messages, they make really efficient use of the radio network, not needing to be assigned a radio channel and being inserted into the signaling information of the network itself and then, this is why they allow to be sent and received at any time, even during a call.
Even more, some mobile phone operators, to earn more in velocity and time, they transport them through the GPRS packet protocol instead of the signaling channel.
And now leaving a bit of the strictly technical, as a consequence of the imperative need to be brief in a text message, the users of this very popular and widely disseminated form of communication they have developed its own language tending to gain space in this field and therefore the sometimes even indiscriminate use of abbreviations, has been imposed when it comes to texting. The only one to supplant the long one? that, the x for the for and even if the thing comes from romance, there is no time for the verse and then, the I love you will be left for when we see each other and will be supplanted by a very brief tq or tk. Although in this respect, many linguists and academies of language have filed an alert, since the abuse of this abbreviated language can lead to tremendous spelling horrors when it comes to to write and more if the first steps are being taken in this regard.
On the other hand, the diffusion of this new way of communication has transcended all barriers so much that it is common for It is used both to invite to events, give notices, send alarms, confirm bank transactions, participate in television games or simply to tell someone that you love or miss him, among infinite possibilities.
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