The development history of mobile phone short message group sending.

Short message history: 1992, the world's first short message was successfully sent by pc and mobile phone on gsm network in Watford, England. After 1999, short messages began to spread rapidly all over the world and broke out continuously. According to the statistics of the World gsm Association, the total number of short messages in the world in 20001year was 250 billion, and it is expected to reach 360 billion in 2002.

Before 2000, many mobile phones in China did not have the function of sending and receiving Chinese short messages. In the second half of 2000, China Mobile launched short message service. China Unicom also unwilling to lag behind, quickly follow up. In the second half of 2000, the number of short messages increased by 40 million per month on average.

By 200 1, short message service has become a bright spot in the development of China Telecom. In 20001year, the national SMS business volume was 65.438+0.89 billion, with a revenue of 2 billion yuan. Among them, China Mobile reached 654.38+059 billion, exceeding the expected target by 59%. Unicom has 4 billion articles. The market shares of China Mobile and China Unicom are 84. 13% and 15.87% respectively.

In 2002, the development target of mobile SMS in China was 30 billion, twice the business volume of last year, and that of China Unicom was 654.38+0 billion, more than three times the business volume of last year. People in the industry have predicted that the short message market in China will reach 3 billion yuan in 2002, but as far as the current development situation is concerned, it may be somewhat conservative.

Some people think that the mobile phone short message market in China may be pregnant with business opportunities of more than 8 billion yuan, which may reach more than 654.38+06 billion yuan by 2005. Industry insiders predict that in the next few years, the number of short messages sent in China will be stable at more than 654.38+0.5 billion. According to the 0 yuan calculation of 0.65438+, the annual short message market revenue is at least 654.38+05 billion yuan. SMS has become a new revenue growth point for mobile communication operators, which has opened up a huge value-added space for commercial websites, products and services of mobile phone manufacturers, software manufacturing and other industries.