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Prepaid phones offer you the advantage of having a cell phone without the high cost of a monthly bill. With a prepaid phone, you can add minutes when you need them and never pay for the extra features you don't need. It's also a great way to monitor your child's cell phone usage and control the number of minutes they can use. more »
Cell phones provide many means of communication other than standard phone calls. One such means of communication is text messaging. Text messaging allows users to send short character messages between cell phones, much like a brief email. This method has gained in popularity among users who prefer visual messaging over speaking to... more »
Cell phones that use the TracFone service are known collectively as "TracFones." This service does not require a credit check, prevents surprise bills at the end of the month, and avoids the long-term and expensive commitments of a typical cell phone contract. Instead, you buy a prepaid number of minutes good for a certain amount of... more »
Cell phone service has become too expensive for many people, what with a monthly fee and the initial outlay for the phone. Phone companies try to entice users with more minutes, but this is irrelevant if you don't make or take many calls. The solution to both dilemmas is a pay-as-you-go cell phone. more »
Prepaid cell phone services allow people to have the use of cell phones without the commitment of a rate plan. Prepaid phones can be purchased at cellular phone stores, at department stores, at convenience stores and online. However, prepaid cell phone customers do not get all the benefits of their postpaid counterparts. What are the... more »
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Initially created for the hearing impaired in 1995, text messaging, or SMS, short-message service, didn't go over very well at first. Subscribers... more »
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Text messaging, or texting, is a colloquial term referring to the exchange of brief written messages between mobile phones, over cellular networks. While the term most often refers to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS), it has been extended to include messages containing image, video, and sound content, such as MMS messages. Individual messages are referred to as "text messages" or "texts".
The most common application of the service is person-to-person messaging, but text messages are also used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and services for mobile phones, or participating in contests. Advertisers and service providers use texts to notify mobile phone users about promotions, payment due dates, and other notifications that were previously sent by post or left as voicemail. There are internet services available that allow users to send text messages free of direct charge to the sender.
History
Many companies claim to have sent the very first text message, but according to a former employee of NASA, Edward Lantz, the first was sent via a simple Motorola beeper in 1989 by Raina Fortini from New York City to Melbourne Beach, Florida using upside down numbers that could be read as words and sounds. The first person-to-person text message, sent from a phone to a phone on the SMS technology, was sent by Riku Pihkonen of Nokia, in Finland in 1993. The first deaf person to send a text message was in April 1995 by David Jackson, a Deaf researcher working at the Centre for Deaf Studies within the University of Bristol; the research project he was involved in was a joint venture between the university, Orange and Nokia.
Initial growth of text messaging was slow, with customers in 1995 sending on average only 0.4 messages per GSM customer per month."gsmworld"> One factor in the slow take-up of SMS was that operators were slow to set up charging systems, especially for prepaid subscribers, and eliminate bil read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text+messaging
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