Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th May 2009 20:36 UTC
"Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became Hillebrand's magic number - and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging."
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RE[3]: Comment by ephracis
by wanderingk88 on Mon 4th May 2009 23:27
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RE[3]: Comment by ephracis
by daedliusswartz on Tue 5th May 2009 00:29
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No it's not. It's one message, just split into two.
I don't buy the line that's all they could allow technically. What is this.. Windows 1.0 days? Sheesh.
The mobile even says "updating message" when there's several SMS coming in as one message, so they know full well it's a single message but charge for multiples.
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2005-12-31
Argue whatever you want - it *is* still two messages being sent.