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Is WhatsApp A Threat To The Future of SMS?

Posted: 3/26/2013

We are all practically a generation breeding on smartphones and WhatsApp. Like the letter and postcards fazed out eventually, the scenario seems the same for Short Service Message(SMS).

In fact, the industry analysts themselves started predicting the demise of SMS as early as 2011 with WhatsApp taking over the mantle of communication. Despite the increase in the volume of SMSes in general, it was Instant Messaging that was all the rage.

To go by a few number charts, WhatsApp is practically used in more than 100 nations with more than 100 million daily users across 750 mobile networks! But that's just some fancy numbers, right.

Texting Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

Posted: 12/03/2012

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20 years ago, a software programmer in Berkshire, UK started something that even two decades later it hasn't lost its charm. On 3rd December 1992 Neil Papworth sent the world's first SMS to his buddy Richard Jarvis from Vodafone who was at that time enjoying an office Christmas party. The message was a simple 'Merry Christmas'.

Since back in 1992 those brick-sized mobiles didn't have any keyboard, the SMS was sent via Papworth's PC to Jarvis' mobile. Initially Vodafone intended to introduce this service as an internal office thing allowing its employees to communicate with each other in a fun and of course convenient way.