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Cellular Phone Forum / Manufacturers / Nokia / October 2004why sms is only 160 characters?
why sms is only 160 characters? >why sms is only 160 characters? because it is.  SignatureChris Pollard CG Internet café, Tagum City, Philippines http://www.cginternet.net > why sms is only 160 characters? Didn't you ask this elsewhere, and get several answers as well? SignatureGravity brings me down. "nsa" <> wrote in message ... > why sms is only 160 characters? No idea. Please tell us. Mike. Because 160 characters are just enough for the bandwidth of the gsm-network to handle I guess (just using my common-sense knowledge). When you call someone, you actually send your voice in the form of data to another cellphone... A sms is send in but a fraction of a second, and I guess a minimum of 160bps might be one of the maximum speeds the network can manage to send to another cellphone. Dunno for sure, though. > why sms is only 160 characters? > Because 160 characters are just enough for the bandwidth of the gsm-network > to handle I guess (just using my common-sense knowledge). But (network and phone dependant) you can send or receive one sms message in 3 x 160 characters length. SignatureDrop your carrier...we have you surrounded! > But (network and phone dependant) you can send or receive one sms message > in > 3 x 160 characters length. Yeah but it's in the form of 3 transactions - 3 messages are sent. It's in a 'code' that the recieving phone decodes, and places into 1 message. My old 6510 (i think it was that?) couldn't handle that, so you had to read each message seperately I think the packet size is of 140 octets, i.e. 160 charecters ? > Because 160 characters are just enough for the bandwidth of the gsm-network > to handle I guess (just using my common-sense knowledge). When you call [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > > why sms is only 160 characters? |
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