The history of short messages

The inventor of mobile phone short message is Finnish. Because Nordic people are sensitive and don't like to express by phone, they invented short message on a whim. Some people on the Internet say that the inventor of SMS is Marty Cooper, an American who works for Motorola, but he invented the mobile phone, not SMS.

The world attributed the appearance of the first mobile phone in 1973 to Marty Cooper, the chief designer of Motorola at that time. It was not until nearly 20 years later that the most valuable additional service SMS of mobile phone was announced. 1992, Acision company put the first short message service center (SMSC) system into the market. Its initial design purpose was mainly to investigate and improve the reliability of the developing mobile phone market, and then Telenor, a local Norwegian telecommunications company, became the first signing company of SMSC.

From the original SMSC box to the current AcisionIPSMSC system, Acision Company has increased the speed of SMS service to 65,438+06,000 messages per second, and its upper limit is endless. Based on the expectation of technical development level, the IMS-enabled platform of Acision will be able to provide users with higher quality services while reducing costs in the future. The value of this technology to the market is immeasurable, and the innovation of SMSC will never stop.

In 1992, the SMSC 1.0 version can only handle 10 short messages per second. It was not until 1999 that the first high-speed SMSC system was seen in the industry. Axision Company increased its processing capacity to 500 messages per second, and the latest Acision IP SMSC system increased this number by 32 times.

Despite the rapid development of the mobile market, SMS is still the most important value-added service. According to IDC's statistics, SMS is still the most popular mobile service in the Asia-Pacific region. Even in the developing SMS market, such as SMS service in Western Europe, the utilization rate has reached 90%.

Steven van Zanen, marketing manager of Acision, said: "SMS plays a vital role in the income of almost all mobile network service providers on the planet. In the development of short message service center system 15 years, short messages have achieved complete success. However, our task is still unfinished, and Acision will continue to further upgrade its system and provide newer and more cutting-edge technologies to maintain our leading position in this industry 15 years. "

1992, the world's first short message was successfully sent to the mobile phone through the computer on the network of Vodafone company in Britain, thus announcing the birth of mobile phone short messages. As for when and where the first short message in China was born, it is unknown, but according to research, the mobile communication network in China had the short message function as early as 1994, but people with mobile phones didn't need it at all. With the increasing popularity of mobile phones, since 1998, China Mobile and China Unicom have successively expanded their short message services on a large scale: in 2000, the number of short messages in China exceeded 1 100 million; 200 1 year reaches18.9 billion; In 2004, this figure soared to 90 billion.

According to the statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 20 12 years, the number of mobile short messages sent nationwide reached 8973 1 100 million, with a year-on-year increase of only 2. 1%, the lowest growth rate in four years. Comparing the two data, we can find that the growth rate of mobile phone users in China is much faster than that of short message service, and the average short message sending volume in China actually decreased by about 9% in 20 12. According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there are 20110 billion mobile phone users in China, including 760 million SMS users, with a penetration rate of 68.8%, and about 420 million mobile phone users, with a penetration rate of 38.2%. On the other hand, among China 1 1 100 million mobile phone users, Tencent WeChat users exceeded 300 million, with a penetration rate of 27.3%. In China, more than 7 out of every 10 mobile phone users are WeChat users.