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An Sms Overview

The document summarizes SMS (Short Message Service) which allows text messages up to 160 characters to be sent to and from mobile phones on a GSM network. It discusses SMS message categories of mobile terminate (MT) and mobile originate (MO). The document also describes that GSM modems using the AT+ command set can communicate with controlling devices over an RS-232 transport protocol to send and receive SMS messages from a computer instead of just mobile phones. It specifies the hardware used was a GSM modem based on the Wavecom chipset manufactured by a South African company called TeliMatrix.

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An Sms Overview

The document summarizes SMS (Short Message Service) which allows text messages up to 160 characters to be sent to and from mobile phones on a GSM network. It discusses SMS message categories of mobile terminate (MT) and mobile originate (MO). The document also describes that GSM modems using the AT+ command set can communicate with controlling devices over an RS-232 transport protocol to send and receive SMS messages from a computer instead of just mobile phones. It specifies the hardware used was a GSM modem based on the Wavecom chipset manufactured by a South African company called TeliMatrix.

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A.2.

SMS Overview
The Short Message Service (SMS) allows text-based messages to be sent to
and from mobile telephones on a GSM network [2]. Each message has a
maximum length of 160 characters. SMS messages are divided into two
categories: Mobile Terminate (MT — where the SMS message originates
from the network provider) and Mobile Originate (MO — where the consumer
can send messages to other consumers) [3]. In the context of MO and MT
messages, the consumer refers to the end-user, the person with a cell
phone. This is as opposed to the network provider, who provides the
consumer with such services. In this section, we are only concerned with MO
SMS messages.
Typically, SMS messages are sent and received by cellular consumers using
cellular telephone handsets. Cell phones are not the only devices that have
this capability though. Anything that is capable of talking to a GSM network,
in theory, has the ability to send and receive SMS messages. Since we are
trying to interface a computer with the GSM network, it makes sense to use
a device designed to do so, in other words a GSM modem.
Almost all GSM modems (and this includes many cell phone hand sets) use
RS-232 as a transport protocol. On top of this, they use a protocol called the
AT+ command set to communicate with their controlling devices. AT+ was
defined by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute [4], and
was designed to be a backward compatible set of extensions to the Hayes AT
command set [5]. Device manufacturers are free to add their own
extensions to this command set, and such extensions usually have an
identifying prefix.
The communications hardware used to implement the service described in
this paper was just such a GSM modem, specifically a modem based on the
Wavecom chipset. It was pleasing to find such modems manufactured by a
South African based company called TeliMatrix.

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