History of SMS
The idea of adding text messaging was a part of mobile communication services since the beginning of the 1980s.
Experts decided on which of these services should be GMS services (a global system for communication systems). At the time, few believed that SMS would be used to send text messages from one mobile user to another and believed it would be used to alert the individual mobile user that he or she had a deposited voice mail or that it could be used for telemetry.
A plan was reached to allow SMS in mobile phones around 1985. The first SMS message was sent in the UK in 1992 using a personal computer and sending the message to a Vodafone Orbitel handset. The text of the message was “Merry Christmas.” The first growth of SMS was slow with customers sending only 0.4 messages per month.
SMS is he fastest form of communication when one includes the counterpart not being able to take a call, being out of radio range, etc. Currently SMS has an average global price of 11 cents and maintains a near 90% profit margin.