RSS feedSMS changes the way we deal with the world. Especially when its antisocial and slow to encode nature is contradictingly combined with a supposed ever increasing world need for speed and immediacy of communications.
Ironically, it was the U.S. (and the incompatability of their telco networks) which caused most resistance to the pandemic rise of SMS worldwide, only giving in after the rest of the world had well and truly solidified the permanent place for SMS in modern communications. In fact it was the initial failure of SMS in the U.S. which caused many of their reality TV shows (such as Big Brother and Survivor) to be voted by the progam participants, instead of like the rest of the world which tends to use members of the public via the SMS cash cow.
Not bad for a protocol which simply uses the unused space in mobile (cell) phone tower control channel packets. At 10c per SMS, and no additional outlay, SMS is the telco world’s gravy train.
Now if we could only type on a 9 digit keypad as fast as we can make a voice call. What’s wrong with this picture?
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