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Informationen zum Autor Friedhelm Hillebrand, Managing Partner of Hillebrand & Partners Consulting Engineers, Germany Fred founded Hillebrand & Partners in 2001and prior to that he held leading positions in ETSI. From 1996-2000 he was Chairman of ETSI SMG responsible for all GSM and UMTS standardisation work (200 Plenary delegates, 10 sub committees, more than 1000 participants). Before that he was a Technical Executive at GSM MoU Association responsible for GSM and UMTS evolution and development strategy and GSM promotion at global level. He is described as one of the "Fathers of GSM". Klappentext Written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of SMS standardization by the people who produced the standards, Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Text Messaging, describes the development of the SMS standard and its ongoing evolution. The standardization of SMS started in February 1985 as a part of the creation of the second generation digital cellular system GSM, and the 25th anniversary of the first work on SMS provides an opportunity to review and understand how this service was developed. The book also looks to the future, as a large number of new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone and for implementation in every new terminal is proposed. One of the only books which covers the complete SMS genesis from concept ideas to standardization of a first technical solution and its evolution to the present day. Describes the service concept including the limitation of the message length to 160 characters and explains the rationale behind the concept. Based on existing and newly retrieved documentation. Concludes that SMS has a long future since most future GSM phones will support SMS as the only messaging service, and so an SMS evolution is put forward. Zusammenfassung Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Text Messaging presents a chronological history of SMS. The book starts by describing text communication in the early 1980s. It characterizes the SMS concept developed via Franco-German cooperation and describes how GSM is different, detailing the succeeding factors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction xiii 1 Communication Networks in the Early 1980s and the Portfolio of GSM Services 1 F. Hillebrand 1.1 Station-to-station Morse Telegraphy, the Origin of All Modern Technical Text Communication 1 1.2 Network-based Communication Services in the Early 1980s 1 1.3 Services Portfolio of GSM 7 1.4 GSM Mobile Telephony and SMS - the Most Successful Telecommunication Services 12 2 Who Invented SMS? 15 F. Hillebrand 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 Clarification of the Terms 'Invention' and 'Innovation' 15 2.3 Was SMS Invented during the ISDN Work? 16 2.4 Was SMS Invented by Test Engineers, Students or in a Pizzeria Session? 17 2.5 A Clarifying Discussion within the GSM Community in Spring 2009 18 2.6 Timetables of SMS Genesis 19 3 The Creation of the SMS Concept from Mid-1984 to Early 1987 23 F. Hillebrand 3.1 The Birth of the SMS Concept in the French and German Network Operators 23 3.2 The Standardisation of the SMS Concept in the GSM Committee from February 1985 to April 1987 34 3.3 The Acceleration of the GSM Project, Including SMS in 1987 42 4 The Technical Design of SMS in DGMH from June 1987 to October 1990 45 F. Trosby 4.1 Background 45 4.2 Some Personal Sentiments at the Start 46 4.3 The Instructions that IDEG Were Given for Provision of SMS 47 4.4 Overall Description of the Work in the Period from 1987 to 1990 and Work Items Dealt with 48 4.5 The SMS of September 1990 55 4.6 Major Desi...
