why sms is only 160 characters?

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why sms is only 160 characters?

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On 28 Oct 2004, at 00:27:53 [GMT -0700] (17:27:53 Thursday, 28 October 2004
where I live) "nsa" wrote:

> why sms is only 160 characters?

Didn't you ask this elsewhere, and get several answers as well?

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Because 160 characters are just enough for the bandwidth of the gsm-network
to handle I guess (just using my common-sense knowledge). When you call
someone, you actually send your voice in the form of data to another
cellphone... A sms is send in but a fraction of a second, and I guess a
minimum of 160bps might be one of the maximum speeds the network can manage
to send to another cellphone.
Dunno for sure, though.

"nsa" <prince_nsa@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
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> why sms is only 160 characters?

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I think the packet size is of 140 octets, i.e. 160 charecters ?


"Inferno" <magicmonster@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message news:<41815b21$0$62020$ee9da40f@news.wanadoo.nl>...
> Because 160 characters are just enough for the bandwidth of the gsm-network
> to handle I guess (just using my common-sense knowledge). When you call
> someone, you actually send your voice in the form of data to another
> cellphone... A sms is send in but a fraction of a second, and I guess a
> minimum of 160bps might be one of the maximum speeds the network can manage
> to send to another cellphone.
> Dunno for sure, though.
>
> "nsa" <prince_nsa@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
> news5b52a59.0410272327.7016fa2c@posting.google.com...
> > why sms is only 160 characters?