Written by: Lars Novak and Magnus Svensson

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With an estimated 15 billion SMS messages being sent throughout the world every month, SMS, or text messaging, has proved extremely popular among GSM subscribers. Users appreciate the simple, convenient and personal communications medium that mobile terminal-to-mobile terminal messaging provides. Now, with the addition of features like color pictures, animations, audio samples, and video clips, MMS promises a dramatic increase in messaging capabilities that will enrich user experience and create a major new source of revenue for network operators as well as content and service providers.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 03, 2001]