Published on December 5th, 2012 | by Segun Olojo-Kosoko
Little did we know that our beloved text messaging or SMS as its called was developed 20 years ago. It was the brain work of a 22-year-old Neil Papworth who sent the world?s first text message from a computer to his boss?s cellphone. It read: ?Merry Christmas? and revolutionized the way we communicate.
One year later Nokia introduced the first mobile phone that allowed customers to send text messages to others within the same network. Then in 1999, text messages could cross networks for the time. A new fever was born.
When Neil sent the inaugural text working as a software engineer at Sema group now Mavenir Systems he was only trying to improve pager messaging as a lot of people did not carry cell phones in those days. 20 years down the line SMS has revolutionized to become in most telecom operators revenue the second largest revenue generating event.
The characteristics that made SMS an essential mobile communications service was that it is inexpensive, universally available on devices and from mobile operators, and interoperable. Other things that made it popular was politics as in 2004, the then U.K Prime Minster Tony Blair took part in a live text chat and in 2008 the current US President; then Senator Barack Obama sent a text message to his supporters to announce his vice presidential running mate. The act of sending sms; called ?Texting? now dominate the way young people communicate. This also has helped in today?s social media giant like Facebook and Twitter.
With technology and increased affordability of mobile devices, a world bank study estimated that about three-quarters of the world population now has access to a mobile phone. Trillions of test messages are sent around the globe every day.
However, I believe texting may soon become a thing of the past as the driving force which is the youth have turned to instant messaging and possible voice messaging application on todays smartphones; yet another feet in technology. With so many OTT (Over The Top) application like Whatsapp, Nimbuzz and the Blackberry messaging, Apple?s message application. Telecom operators would need to re-invent a new revenue generating event that would replace SMS.
Source: http://otekbits.com/2012/12/the-sms-is-20-technologys-christmas-gift-to-communication/
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