‘S’-Short

‘M’-Message

‘S’-Service

Full Form of SMS in English and Hindi
Short Name	In English	In Hindi
SMS	Systems Management Server	सिस्टम्स प्रबंधन सर्वर
	Short Message Service	लघु संदेश सेवा
	Safety Management System	सुरक्षा प्रबंधन प्रणाली
	Storage Management Subsystem	संग्रहण प्रबंधन सबसिस्टम
	Shared Medical Systems	साझा मेडिकल सिस्टम्स
	Sun, Moon, And Stars	सूर्य, चंद्रमा, और सितारों

 

SMS stands for the Short Message Services. Now there are many question moving in your mind. What is short message services. What does it mean? and so on. Guys and girls, please don’t worry. Here I will clear all your doubts regarding this very issues. SP just have patience and be consistent and study this article sincerely. Short Message Services, the very full name for SMS tells about the meaning of the SMS. It is nothing but a service for  sending short message to mobile phones.

Actually SMS, that is Short Message Service is a text messaging service component of most of the telephone, World Wide Web, and mobile telephone systems. This generally uses standardized communication protocols to enable mobile phone devices. This is to exchange short text messages. An service that is intermediary can facilitate a text to voice conversion to be sent to landlines. This very that is SMS is the most largely used data application. According to the estimation, there were 3.5 billion active users. And also there are about 80% of all mobile phone subscribers, at the end of 2010.

What does the term SMS refers to?

Well dear what does the term SMS actually refers to?

As I have told you that a SMS is nothing but an acronym used for the Short Message Services. Let me here discuss more so that you will be able to know more of the things about the Short Message Services. SMS as used on nowadays handsets, came from radio technology in radio memo pagers that used standardized phone protocols. These were defined in 1985 as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications Series of standards. The protocols permits every user to send as well as receive message up to 160 alpha numeric characters to and from GSM handsets.

How SMS works?

Earlier I have mentioned about the meaning and many aspects of SMS. Also SMS is a service to send message that is short actually. Well this is the fact that SMS or you can say text messaging has in fact replaced the phone calling that is talking on the phone to a large extent. Nowadays this is the most common things regarding the uses of the phone in the field of messaging. Just when we are finally used to see everybody constantly talking on their cell phones, it suddenly seems like no anyone is having talk on the phone. Actually besides this they are messaging. Here I will share how text messaging works, and also explore its uses.

So dear page readers there are quite a few benefits of SMS, that stands for Short Message Services. This is more discreet than a phone conversation. Thus this makes it an ideal form of communication when there is a case of overheard. The most important thing is here that it is often less time consuming to send a text message as compared to a call on phone or send an email. In this very way there are a lot of advantages of SMS over other alternatives. Another thing is that SMS doesn’t require anyone to be at the computer like that of the email and other do. Also some of the phones are equipped for mobile email and IM services as well. Well there is another thing as well. SMS that is Short messaging services is also a convenient way for deaf and hearing impaired people to communicate. This is one of the advantageous thing for such like people.

Some More About SMS

Well dear there are a lot of things that you have noticed about SMS. There are many pros as well as cons of this very thing that is SMS here. I would like to mention some more things that will help to know in real about this very thing, and their internal things. For this I am sharing some useful facts in the mentioned below list.

• Short Messaging Services is a store and forward service. This means that when anyone send a text message to a friend, the message does not go directly to your that very friend’ phone. There are a lot of things as well as mechanism in here.
• The advantage of this method is that your friend’s cell phone doesn’t have to be active or in range for you in order to send a message.
• The main thing here is that the very message that is to be delivered is actually stored in the SMSC until your friend turns his cell phone or comes into range. Thus this is what happen while sending message to anyone.
• Also the message will remain stored on your friend’s SIM card. And that very message that is received will remain in the SIM card of the friend until and unless he or she deletes it.

Thus guys and girls, these are the happenings in the working of the Short Messaging Services, commonly known as SMS.  It is a matter of fact that everything has two aspects. One is good and the other one is bad. So similar thing is here. SMS have disadvantages as well. Let me point out some of the disadvantages in the following section.

Disadvantages of SMS

Well here you all will get to know the disadvantages of the SMS. They are given under:-

1. The first thing is the problem regarding money. Actually everyone have to pay for SMS. Most wireless plans charge for a certain number of text messages a month. Some only charge for user originated messages. On the other hand, rest charge for incoming messages as well.
2. If you exceed your message allowance, you may be charged 10 cents per message. and also those little charge can add up.
3. There is no any guarantee of speedy message delivery. During periods of high traffic, it might be minutes or even hours before any message get through.
4. Apart from the above mentioned things, there is another one here. This is strictly for sending text messages. SMS does not supports sending pictures, video or music. This is one of the marking disadvantage among all.