46 text messages are still being sent every second in Austria. The service was first used 30 years ago.
30 years ago, in December 3, 1992 the first SMS has been sent. Vodafone engineer Neil Papworth sent “Merry Christmas” from his computer to his colleague, Vodafone UK boss Richard Jarvis. This was just at the British group Vodafone’s Christmas party.
Last year there was even an NFT request via SMS 130,000 euros auctioned. After that, the NFT changed hands 3 more times – for what amount is not known.
Even if Christmas wishes were perhaps a little premature, the service for telecom companies was as cost-effective as Christmas and Easter put together. Of technical effort for the provider was manageable, SMS is itself a By-product of the GSM standard🇧🇷 The service, initially free, was quickly monetized, margins were high and individual messages cost money. up to 40 cents🇧🇷
Featured SMS in 2012
But there were also ways to send SMS for free. 1999 became about the site sms.at launched, where you have to send as many short messages as you like with a free account. All that was needed was a computer with internet access.
SMS reached its peak in Austria 2012, when Austrians sent more than 7.7 billion messages through the service. Those times are over – and yet SMS cannot be killed. Even today, each day becomes round 4 million text messages Sent.
automated SMS
The messaging pioneer sms.at is also still operational, albeit in 2020 by the Norwegian communications company Link Mobility was bought. The company specializes in automatically sending SMS, MMS or emails through a software interface.
These SMS are also the reason why so many messages are still being sent and received. Regardless of whether appointment reminders for medical consultation or SMS to authentication on various online services – news certainly has a right to exist in everyday life. join machine-to-machine applicationsin which the devices exchange information with each other through the SMS standard.
SMS alert system should come at the end of 2023
In case of catastrophe, SMS also has the advantage of supplying regions where there is no reliable data connection. Such SMS alert system can provide targeted information to mobile phone users in a specific region and should have been introduced in Austria in 2019. After numerous delays, the Ministry of the Interior has assured the future zone that work should start in December 2022. The service should then Operational until the end of 2023 to walk.