unit 5 SMS(通信管理与运营专业英语教程课件).ppt

Unit 5 SMS VASP value-added service provider ICP internet communication provider ISP internet service provider History of SMS 一.SMS as part of GSM The idea of adding text messaging to the services of mobile users was latent in many communities of mobile communication services at the beginning of the 1980s. Experts from several of those communities, contributed in the discussions on which should be the GSM services. Most thought of SMS as providing a mean to alert the individual mobile user, for example, of a deposited voice mail. However, few believed that SMS would be used as a means for sending text messages from one mobile user to another. As early as February 1985, after having already been discussed in GSM subgroup（子群） SMS was considered in the main GSM group as a possible service for the new digital cellular system. In GSM document Services and Facilities to be provided in the GSM System, both mobile originated and mobile terminated short messages appear on the table of GSM teleservices(电传服务). Here a basic description of the three services was given: 1. Short message Mobile Terminated (SMS-MT)/ Point-to-Point: the ability of a network to transmit a Short Message to a mobile phone. The message can be sent by phone or by a software application. 2. Short message Mobile Originated (SMS-MO)/ Point-to-Point: the ability of a network to transmit a Short Message sent by a mobile phone. The message can be sent to a phone or to a software application. 3. Short message Cell Broadcast. History of SMS 二. Text messaging outside GSM SMS was originally designed as part of GSM, but is now available on a wide range of networks, including 3G networks. However, not all text messaging systems use SMS, and some notable alternate implementations of the concept include J-Phones SkyMail and NTT Docomos Short Mail, both in Japan. E-mail messaging from phones, as popularized by NTT Docomos i-mode and the RIM BlackBerry, also typically use standard mail protocols s