- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:08:49 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> is on a mobile phone, but you can't SMS it and there is no guarantee This, I think, is because the service providers have had problems working out a business model for it. For a very long time it was not available at all, even though in the standard from the beginning. Then it was only available within a service provider. In the UK, I believe it was only government intervention that forced it to be made available between providers. As the network resources used by SMS are negligible, it is surprising that the providers were so unwilling to allow it. Maybe they thought that the GBP 0.10 typically charged for the message was all that people would bear, when they could get much more than this for a long voice call. Part of the original mistake may have been to assume that there would be one SMS call replacing a voice call, not a whole SMS conversation. Restricting to one provider avoided reconcilliation questions, but also was probably aimed to get your friends onto the same network. > that SMS gets delivered anyway). There is often a way of getting delivery confirmation, although sometimes a relay may accept delivery and fail to complete. On the network I use, and I believe some others, starting the message text with *0# will cause delivery status notifications to be generated. Some networks may charge for this.
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