What is the Default Reply Email for a User? What is SMS Marketing? View all FAQs. Start your free trial. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. But with such a high prevalence and everyday usage in our communications, it can be easy to forget why textese words such as 'TTYL', 'B4', and 'HRU' became littered throughout our everyday mobile communications.
Advanced message stitching technology makes it easy to forget about the strict character limit on SMS messages. While allowing our messages to become longer and less ridden with 'text talk', the limit still exists.
In the past, every SMS that exceeded characters was sent as two separate texts. Although now they appear to be sent as one, every SMS that exceeds this limit counts as two. Why characters, you might ask?
Why any restriction on the number of characters in an SMS whatsoever? And where did this absurd rule originate? The 1st 7 characters of each message are used to instruct the carriers and your handset to concatenate the message and re-build it into one fluent long message upon delivery.
That means your length drops to for each message, including the first message. Try yourself here: What's My Character Count? I am loved, appreciated, and full of potential. This is a test of my character count with SlickText. This could be a marketing or a comm. If you start typing beyond this to finish the text, you will notice that the character count reaches but the characters per SMS drops to You have now entered the message concatenation zone!
One you have entered this zone, ALL messages including the first one will be limited to characters. The remaining 7 characters are used by the carriers to write coding which places the messages in order when putting them back together. While you don't see this coding inside of the text itself, you will notice in the message breakdown below your content box on this page that the coding appears in blue.
It looks something like this: 0x05 0x00 0x03 0x0a 0x02 0x0. The channel was chosen as the basis for SMS because the system could be implemented easily, with minimal need for new infrastructure. Most modern cellular phones are able to send and receive these messages fairly easily. In most parts of the world, Latin alphabet text messages are limited to characters each, including spaces.
Some of the newest smartphones are sometimes able to send longer messages that appear to both the sender and the receiver as single, cohesive notes, though in most instances they are actually broken into smaller packets during transmission, then reassembled upon delivery. The technology it takes to do this is constantly evolving, but people with these capabilities may not realize that their messages are actually limited.
A big part of the limitation comes down to basic infrastructure. Cell phones are supported by a network of towers responsible for transmitting calls.
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