and on the day when the SMS technology notes 22 years, 17 has interesting facts about Short Message Service.

The founder of SMS technology is a Finnish engineer Matti Makkoner. The idea came to him back in 1984,when he was at a Conference on the future of mobile communications in Copenhagen.

One SMS can hold up to 70 characters in Cyrillic and 92 characters of Latin alphabet. This happened due to the fact that these languages have a different character set.

The maximum message size in GSM standard is 140 bytes.

In Russia the first SMS-message between the two statements was sent in 2002,when the Beeline and MTS signed a joint agreement on a single TEXT MESSAGE space.

According to statistics, about 40% of users of mobile devices are taking to the short message service.

United States is the world leader for sending SMS. The number of messages sent by residents, is about 830 billion a year.

For American adolescents aged 13 to 17 years, the monthly rate for sending SMSok is 1500 posts.

The world goes about 25 billion text messages.

In the UK alone on new year's Eve goes under 10 billion messages per hour.

Pedro Matias per minutescored264-character message using your phone LG V3. The Portuguese was entered in the Guinness Book of records.

The record for the number of SMS messages sent at the same time was diagnosed in May 2011, when the Utah State school pupil in a blink we sent 667 identical mobile text files. This figure was officially registered by representatives of Guinness world records.

British Melissa Thompson set a world speed record for writing the phrase "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human ". Amazingly, the girl gained her less than 26 seconds.

Scientists have foundthat the concentration of growing human or reading a text message, to 23% higher than the concentration of an experienced driver at the wheel of a car.

Researchers have foundthat typing texts while driving in 2 times more dangerous than drive drunk. One example is the disaster train in Chatsworth in 2008 year, which killed 25 passengers. During the investigation revealed that the driver before a collision sent 45 TEXT MESSAGES.

Communication via SMS has to lie to this conclusion came researchers in 2002 year.

According to financial statements annual statement messaging between users of mobile communication brings about 114.6 billion net income.

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