SMS (Short Message Service), that is now used more frequently than voice calling on mobile phones completes two decades of its existence on December 3,2012
- This 160-character craze began when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer, sent the first text message via Vodafone's UK network to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone. The message said, "Merry Chistmas."
- The first commercial SMS services started in 1993 in Sweden, followed by US and UK in the same year.
- In 1994, Nokia announced the Nokia 2110, which the Finnish company claims to be its first SMS-enabled GSM phone but its predecessor the Nokia 1011 could also send and receive SMS messages
- Presently,more than two lakh SMSs are sent every second.
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