Saturday, June 14, 2014

Facts About Text Messaging Service

By Sally Delacruz


Sending text messages is a conversation method that allows sending messages between phones or computers. A the same time, it encompasses composing and sending electronic and short messages to cell phones and other devices over a phone network. The text Messaging service is reliable in a way that a person can receive a text even if he is still on another phone conversation with another person.

Including spaces, the messages traditionally cannot exceed 160 characters and they often apply predictive technology which makes texting faster and more efficient on non QWERTY cell phones without full keyboards. It has now grown to include messages containing still pictures, moving images and audio content called MMS.

Texting is most often used between private mobile phone users as a substitute for voice calls in situations where communication is impossible or undesirable. Some texts such as short messages are also used for the remote controlling of appliances. It is widely used in domotics systems and other methods such as group texting which are used in involving more than two people in a text messaging conversation.

Flash sms is another type of messaging which is commonly used by people when they do not have enough airtime to alert others to text or call them back. Flashing is also used in emergencies like the alarms involved in fire fighting. Texts are also used in many countries as reminders of health center appointments.This is as a result of sms being effective and quick in being delivered. It has cut down the number of missed psychiatric appointments by around 26%. Appointments with the sick are always programmed in mental hospital services.

Texts gateway suppliers ensure continuous sms traffic among cell subscribers and entrepreneurs. They are specifically responsible for commissioning critical text messages for businesses and entertainment services entailing voting by television. They are, therefore, very important in this sector.

Direct text marketing is used by product promoters and service providers to text people who use mobile phones in product promotion and payment of rates due for payment. With automated systems, it is easy to interact with the texts. They can order products and participate in contests.

Different companies, both international and local, ensure sufficient communication when they use short messages. Companies like call-fire services; leading text messaging companies in advertising, streamline the way one sends many messages to be received and read, and also be used in blasting short messages.

For individuals to be able to send texts, they have to top up their sim cards with airtime, and the charges depend on the company whose services are being used by the individual. Companies like Orange and others have subsidized their rates to favor each and every type of their customers depending on their capabilities. For example, one can subscribe for twenty texts at only one dollar, two hundred texts for two dollars, or even five hundred texts for four dollars.

Apart from subscriptions, the companies also give texting services alone; without subscriptions when the person sending texts has sufficient money or airtime in his or her text messaging account. For instance, some of the competitive rates are 1 short message at one dollar. Messaging is, therefore, a very indispensable thing in the current world.




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