The Short Message Service: Standards, infrastructure and innovation

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 559-568

  Acker, Amelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Innovation; Short Message Service; Standards; Telephony metadata

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INNOVATION; MESSAGE PASSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDS;

DATA SERVICES; INFRASTRUCTURE; MOBILE TELEPHONY; SECOND GENERATION; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; TECHNICAL REALIZATION; TELESERVICES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84899431179     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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