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I'm having a hard time believing someone would have had a phone capable of receiving text messages at a Christmas party if nobody had ever before successfully s
by kerpele 9y ago
I'm having a hard time believing someone would have had a phone capable of receiving text messages at a Christmas party if nobody had ever before successfully sent (and therefore received) one.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoNever heard of prototypes?
- kerpele 9y agoAny prototype would have been tested in the lab first.
- dfox 9y agoI have feeling that the event in the article is about first message that was sent acrosss production network and with the intention of SMS being user accessible (and paid) service.
- kerpele 9y agoBut it was still sent from a PC instead of another phone so not really the commercial use-case. And regardless, why would they not mention it instead of making this guy sound like he actually wrote the whole sms system?
- dfox 9y agoIn that times the first usecase probably was to displace pagers. GSM lore says that SMS originated as network debugging/management feature, which I don't think is exactly true. I suspect that the thing was originally an demonstration for GSM's capability of transfering arbitrar-ish user packet data in control channels (of which SMS is to this day only usage I know of), which got implemented in handsets because it was part of specification and then it was used for network management messages and then got commercialized as SMS. It is not improbable that this guy actually wrote first implementation of the network side of SMS (ie. SMSC) that was actually useful for commercial customers, as the low-level SMS protocol only handles message transfer between network and handsets and does not specify network behavior or even addressing of subscribers.