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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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