Today I was amazed to find the story of early cellular alerts and SMS hidden in a 3GPP report from 2005 (Reference number: TSGT#27(05)0051). It describes that #SMS had two functionalities: cellular alerts, which turns out is one part of what SMS originally included, and point-to-point SMS, which is what we know as SMS today. The document continues withContinue reading “Short story about the history of Emergency SMS”