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SMS Will Soon Celebrate Its 30th Anniversary – Back to a Unique Case of Technological Innovation.

SMS Will Soon Celebrate Its 30th Anniversary – Back to a Unique Case of Technological Innovation.

Often announced as outdated, SMS continues to be successful due to the development of new uses.

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Nov 12, 2022
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Sending an SMS (Short Message Service) is a daily and banal gesture - Europeans send an average of 6 SMS per day - but it illustrates, for the last 30 years, the unique case of an unexpected innovation and the resilience of a basic service whose end has already been announced, wrongly, dozens of times.

Legend has it that the first SMS was exchanged betwe…

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