SMSC or SMS Center
June 17th, 2009 | SMS Center
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!
So what happens if your fiends mobile is switched off or out of service ? Well SMSC will not able to deliver the SMS and you will not receive delivery report. How long SMSC keeps trying to deliver the SMS ? that period can be set by you, in Message Option of your mobile! Once delivery period is over, SMSC no longer tries to deliver the SMS to the recipient.
How do you send SMS to your friend who does not have the same mobile operator as you ?
Normally, one operator has one or more SMSC depending on the SMS traffic in its network. If number of SMS is more, than mobile service providers install more SMSCs and ideally they should install one SMSC in one circle! So when you send SMS to your friend whose number is not of same operator as you, how does he receive the SMS ? In that case, SMSC of your operator send the SMS to SMSC of other network.
SMSC has dedicated work for exchanging SMSes between mobiles. It also sends out various SMS alerts about billing, announcements etc.
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Hey, great post, very well written. You should post more about this.
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