Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Global Text Messaging (Hardcover)

Contributions from Finn Trosby, Kevin Holley, Ian Harris

Written to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of SMS standardization by the people who produced the standards, Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Text Messaging, describes the development of the SMS standard and its ongoing evolution. The standardization of SMS started in February 1985 as a part of the creation of the second generation digital cellular system GSM, and the 25th anniversary of the first work on SMS provides an opportunity to review and understand how this service was developed. The book also looks to the future, as a large number of new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone and for implementation in every new terminal is proposed.

• One of the only books which covers the complete SMS genesis from concept ideas to standardization of a first technical solution and its evolution to the present day.
• Describes the service concept including the limitation of the message length to 160 characters and explains the rationale behind the concept.
• Based on existing and newly retrieved documentation.
• Concludes that SMS has a long future since most future GSM phones will support SMS as the only messaging service, and so an SMS evolution is put forward.

Finn Trosby、Kevin Holley和Ian Harris的貢獻

這本書是為了慶祝短訊服務（SMS）標準化25週年而寫的，由參與標準制定的人撰寫。該書描述了SMS標準的發展和持續演進。SMS的標準化始於1985年2月，作為第二代數字蜂窩系統GSM的一部分，而第一次有關SMS的工作的25週年提供了機會來回顧和了解這項服務的發展。該書還展望了未來，因為大量新的GSM和進化的GSM手機將支持SMS作為大眾市場的高可用性消息服務，並提出了一種適用於每個人並可在每個新終端上實施的新型簡單多媒體消息服務（MMS）。

這是唯一一本完整介紹SMS從概念到第一個技術解決方案的標準化以及其演進至今的書籍之一。書中描述了服務概念，包括將消息長度限制為160個字符的原因。該書基於現有和新獲取的文件。結論是，由於大多數未來的GSM手機將只支持SMS作為唯一的消息服務，因此提出了SMS的演進。

• 這本書是唯一一本涵蓋了從概念到第一個技術解決方案的完整SMS起源以及其演進至今的書籍。


• 描述了服務概念，包括將消息長度限制為160個字符的原因。


• 基於現有和新獲取的文件。


• 結論是，由於大多數未來的GSM手機將只支持SMS作為唯一的消息服務，因此提出了SMS的演進。