One SMS is 160 character long, period.

Have you recently noticed many FOLLOW 58888 advertisement with any news item on Bollywood stars in Times of India ? Specially in their supplementary editions! They have recently launched Follow system in their SMS portal 58888!

Indiatimes 58888 is proud to announce the launch of a new SMS-based service called “58888 Follow” that allows consumers to stay updated on their favorite celebrities, all from their mobile phone. 58888 Follow is incredibly simple to use- the user sends a text message: “Follow [Celebrity’s Name]” (e.g. “Follow Lara”) to 58888, and that’s it. They’ll automatically receive regular updates about the star’s day-to-day happenings. Best of all, the service is free*.

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What is Telematics ?
Telematics is remote monitoring, measurement and presentation of data at a centralised location. Various information like weather, temperature, water level etc. information are collected and transferred in real time and those information are stored and displayed at a centralised location. This is telematics or telemetry.

SMS ( short messaging service) can be used for SMS telemetry. SMS is a wonderful way of sending and receiving short information in wireless ( GSM and CDMA ) network. Though SMS is thought as a feature built in mobile phone, but there are other equipments too which can send and receive SMS. GSM modem is such product which uses a mobile SIM card, has a computer connectivity through USB or RS232 port. FCT ( Fixed Cellular Terminal) is another product which can be used for sending and receiving SMS using AT commands.

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Definition of the Service :

Lakshmi is the goddess of light, beauty, good fortune and wealth. To please Goddess Laxmi and bring prosperity in your life, we bring some mantras for you. These Mantras are for abundance in wealth, strength and wisdom.

Benefits of these Mantras:

Physical – to energize the system (to tone up the system)
Mental – to remove depression/obstacles/mental blocks.
Spiritual – Attaining Siddhi, self-development/specific areas of growth(strengthening the inner-personality by projecting positive powers inwards; over-coming/eliminating negative traits).
Improving the financial situation

End User Pricing:

End User pricing will be Rs 3/- per SMS.
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There was a new short code “56877″ launched in RCOM GSM, CDMA and RTL networks on 15th of July 2009. I want to write about this because of some unique services they are providing through “56877″

Following are some of the new services and how it works:

1. Know your personality from your name – Users can know about their personality from the first name. As reports from the service provider they use an algorithm to find out the personality of a person from the name. To avail this service people have RELIANCE number should type “NAME” leave a space, then type the First Name and send to 56877.

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SMS contains two basic point-to-point services. They are:

MO – Mobile originated short message

MT – Mobile terminated short message

When you send an SMS, Mobile-originated (MO) short messages are transported from the MO-capable handset to the SMSC and can be destined to other mobile subscribers or for subscribers on networks such as GSM, CDMA, Paging Networks and Internet Protocol.

Mobile-terminated (MT) short messages are transported from the SMSC to the handset and can be submitted to the SMSC by other mobile subscribers via MO-SM. For MT, a report is always returned to the SMSC either confirming the short message delivery to the handset or informing the SMSC of the short message delivery failure and identifying the reason for failure (error code). Sometimes when SMSC doesn’t receives the report of delivering, it keeps sending the SMS again and again. Continue reading →

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What is SMSC or SMS Center ?
Have you ever called your mobile customer care while you face problems in sending or receiving SMS ? If you have done so, then you might have been told few things about SMSC! Specifically, customer care executives must have asked you to check message center number in your mobile! Which you normally check by going to Messages, and then going to Message Options. There you see a Message Center Number!

Now that is the SMSC or SMS Center. When you are sending an SMS to your friend, actually you are sending the SMS to this SMSC! SMSC receives your SMS along with the information where you are sending, and SMSC in turns delivers the SMS to the recipient, which is the mobile number of your friend! Once SMSC delivers the SMS to your friend’s mobile, it gives you a delivery report!
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