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Columbus, OH | Simple fix Why not just drop SMS altogether and replace it with email access either directly on the phone or gateway-ed through the provider? The upside is the provider can either offer their own email services (much like it is now with email gateways like 1234567890@vtext.com, but it goes to a real mail server and not transferred to 160-character limited text messages) or for a moderate extra fee, access to the mailbox of the customer's choice.
I already do this to a point with my bog-standard nextel phone. Gmail applet installed on the phone and my gmail account forwards snippets of messages from certain recipients as SMS messages so if one pops up, I can look it up in the gmail applet. Wouldn't be all that difficult to integrate a similar email client in place of the SMS functionality.
Like another poster already mentioned above: SMS functionality uses a totally different infrastructure from data and voice and it DOES have bandwidth issues, albeit companies like VZW are still raping people on these per-text charges. SMS is old school and really has no upgrade path. And with the trend of things now, it really needs to be replaced by something more 'economic'. Use something like email which can then use the data side of the network and cost much less for the provider and not have this paltry 160-character limit to deal with.
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