The Creation of the SMS Concept from Mid‐1984 to Early 1987

Hillebrand, Friedhelm

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“…In the sections that follow, documentary evidence about SMS, gathered through literature search, comprises the bulk of the primary sources. This includes explanatory and educational material on the design of the GSM network, and accounts of the history of SMS such as those found in Acker (2014) and Hillebrand (2010). In addition to academic work, technical overviews of the architectures developed in various GSM phases were consulted, as well as a particularly thorough account of the standards-setting process (Hillebrand, Rosenbrock, & Hauser, 2013) sponsored by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).…”

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“…Two-way messaging via SMS was a largely unintended success. The original design anticipated that most use would fit the far narrower "paging" model of operator to end-user messaging, analogous to pager devices that were popular in Europe at the time (Hillebrand, 2010). The "paging" use-case of SMS was intended for notifications from a network operator to their own users.…”

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“…The "paging" use-case of SMS was intended for notifications from a network operator to their own users. For example, an early use of SMS was to notify a user of a waiting voicemail (Hillebrand, 2010). Another proposal was to add SMS sending capabilities to full-keyboard terminals like the Minitel device in use in France (Hillebrand, 2010, p. 37), which would allow end-users to send SMSs to mobile devices.…”

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A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

Loudon

2016

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We have good evidence-not least from widespread adoption-that mobile communications can improve the lives of the poor. Building on this success, interventions using mobile technology to tackle development problems have become common in ICT4D. The short message service (SMS), which works on even basic phones, is a popular platform for mobiles for development (m4d) apps and services. This paper documents the historical origins and technical characteristics of SMS as a platform for m4d interventions, demonstrating how inherent technological rigidities in the platform combine with creative adaptation, appropriation and re-use to produce a particular set of affordances and constraints. I argue that optimism about the potential for new technologies to contribute to development should be tempered by awareness that the developing world is seldom the intended audience of technology development. Approaches from the social construction of technology-infrastructure studies and platform studiescontribute to a holistic and historicized understanding of the role of technology in the information and communication technology ecosystem.

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2016

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“…In the first mobile phones, there was no Short Message Service (SMS). The SMS concept was developed in the French-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert [3]. In 1973, with the release of the first version of TCP/IP, the Internet began to develop.…”

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A Heterogeneous Social Platform: Talkbuddy

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et al. 2015

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Abstract-Social networking and Instant Messaging applications occupy an important place in human life and they are used by a dramatically increasing number of people day by day. Each application has different features and provides varying options to their users. However, we can clearly see that none of them meets the users' needs satisfactorily. This study proposes a heterogeneous social platform, Talkbuddy, which not only enables location check-in and instant messaging but also offers a new option by which users can also find new contacts according to their preferences. Moreover, the proposed system will assist people in their daily life by offering a cafe, restaurant and/or bar to visit. This system will serve as a web site and mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms.

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The Creation of the SMS Concept from Mid‐1984 to Early 1987

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A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

A Platform Studies Approach to the Role of Technology in the ICTD Ecosystem: The SMS in m4d Interventions

A Heterogeneous Social Platform: Talkbuddy

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