Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Advantages Of Using An Sms Service

By Jamal D White


The popularity of the SMS service has tremendously risen over the past few years with approximately 6.1 billion short messages being sent across all parts of the world in 2010. This translates to an average 193000 short messages being exchanged per second in the year 2010. If you throw a stone at a multitude, the probability that you will hit a person who uses short message services is near one. What led to the popularity of short message services is not a question so difficult to answer. Some factors make short message services popular among many households.

Nothing can be compared to the swiftness of short message services. The information contained in an SMS is delivered instantly. The average time it takes from the time you dialed the send button to the time it is received is about seven seconds. Short message services literally put the information into the pockets of your friends just after a few seconds.

Short messages force people to be concise and precise when passing information to other people. You can only use 160 characters in every single short message hence there is no room for unnecessary details that often distort the main information. This feature of short message service also makes them widely accepted and less time consuming.

You may want to communicate with people that are in various locations. Making phone calls to such a big number of people can be a nightmare. It will waste your time, energy and still prove expensive in the end. Short message services spare you that agony and are very cost effective if you have to communicate to a large number of people.

Almost all short messages are opened and read. Only fractions of emails receive the attention of their recipients. This is because short messages offer a more personal relationship than an email. When both are used for commercial marketing, chances that an email will go without being opened are more than that of short messages.

Short message service platforms have the ability to store a text message in the Short Message Service Centre before forwarding it to the recipient. The person to receive your message does not therefore have to be within range for you to send them a text message. The SMSC will store your message as long as it may be required until the other subscriber becomes available.

SMS offers you the confidentiality that you may require while faced by some situations. If say, you are in a meeting and you want to pass information to someone, making a phone call may be naive and unwise of you. In that situation, short message services become beneficial to you. Ideally, there are some private information that you would not dare have someone overhear and that is where you will need short message services.

The service offers you a place to refer to since the contents of every conversation you had are stored in your sent items. A person can easily deny responsibility over certain information if they made it through telephone calls. However, if the conversations are made over text messages, the contents are kept for future reference.




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