What is peer-to-peer SMS?

Peer-to-peer SMS refers to the end-to-end text information service form sent and received between mobile phones.

The forms of peer-to-peer short messages include intra-network short messages, inter-network short messages and international short messages. The most basic purpose is to realize the mutual communication between two or more points. China Mobile Peer-to-Peer is a short message from mobile phone to mobile phone. From the communication point of view, the point-to-point short message communication means is more convenient and the communication speed is accelerated, which actually brings the increase of communication frequency and the expansion of communication content.

Introduction:

Short Message Service (SMS for short) refers to the text or digital information directly sent or received by users through mobile phones or other telecommunication terminals. The number of characters that users can send and receive SMS at a time is 160 English or numeric characters or 70 Chinese characters.

On April 8, 2020, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom jointly issued the White Paper on 5G SMS, which made the basic SMS service in China enter a comprehensive upgrade channel, and the traditional SMS will be gradually replaced by 5G SMS (RCS service).