The US Is Getting SMS?!?

[Hell Puppy]

Originally posted by Carrie@Dec 30 2003, 08:22 PM
Okay then I guess the question would be - are we finally getting a universal SMS system? It's not going to be used widely until there's some sort of a standard OR all the systems are able to tie-in with each other (like with atm cards and the different networks that all work together there)

Uhm....this has been solved for about 2 years now....

Although the U.S. still has a mixture of GSM, CDMA and TDMA networks floating around out there, all of the large carriers are using solutions from people like Illuminet and Mobilespring to allow SMS to work between carriers.

I know this is true of 5 of the big 6. The big 6 are Verizon, T-mobile, Nextel, Cingular, Sprint and AT&T. Of those, the only one that doesn't play nice and talk with the others is Nextel....or at least they didn't the last time I checked, and that's been a while. Nextel does their own thing as their niche is really businesses who use their walkie-talkie functionality...so far they haven't delved into data service very much.