About half of the world's population use sms almost every single day via their mobile phones. Those who send texts abroad pays up to twenty times more than the cost of local sms text message.
Cost of long distance sms text messages is being revolutionized by the growing access to internet as more and more people can now access decent enough bandwidth internet via the mobile phones to transmit sms data packets online.
Long distance and local sms online is provided completely free of charge by a few bill saving dedicated online portals. Such free sms services are saving people loads of money on their telephone bills.
What is sms anyway, and where did it come from?. Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of phone, web or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of texts between fixed line or mobile phone devices. SMS texting is the most widely used data application in the world, with about three billion active users, or around 74% of all mobile phone subscribers. SMS is the common method of communication in developing nations, eg Asia and Africa. The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging as well as the user activity itself in many parts of the world.
The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984.The technical development of SMS was a multinational collaboration supporting the framework of standards bodies, and through these organizations the technology was made freely available to the whole world.