Open the Mobile Gateway with SMS and MMS Messaging
If you've ever used your mobile device to check your Yahoo! Mail or check the news, you've used a Short Messaging Service (SMS). This article takes you through the inner-workings of these near-ubiquitous services, finally demonstrating how to SMS-enable your weblog.
by Premshree Pillai
September 2, 2004
hort Messaging Service (SMS) services are becoming near-ubiquitous. Who among us has not used their cellphone to check the latest cricket score or to get the latest news? One very popular service, available through most carriers, is Yahoo's 8242 service. This service allows you to check your Yahoo Mail, use Yahoo Instant Messenger, or check scores, news, etc. When you access this type of service, you're using both the carrier's network and the service provider's network (in this case Yahoo). There are also many carrier-dependent services, in which case you make use of the carriers' network alone.
To provide you with these services, these networks (Yahoo, or any of the carriers like Hutch, AirTel, etc.) implement something known as a gateway. A gateway is nothing but—as the word suggests—an entrance to the network. In the case of mobile-based services, these gateways are called mobile-to-network gateways,or simply mobile gateways.
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hort Messaging Service (SMS) services are becoming near-ubiquitous. Who among us has not used their cellphone to check the latest cricket score or to get the latest news? One very popular service, available through most carriers, is Yahoo's 8242 service. This service allows you to check your Yahoo Mail, use Yahoo Instant Messenger, or check scores, news, etc. When you access this type of service, you're using both the carrier's network and the service provider's network (in this case Yahoo). There are also many carrier-dependent services, in which case you make use of the carriers' network alone.
