We all are familiar with the short code business because its been all over the media. We saw the TV 2.0 revolution with short codes. Even though an SMS would cost 3 Rs, millions of premium SMSs flowed through carried carrier networks when reality shows became popular. But still, majority kept themselves away from this, just because of cost of sending a message. 3Rs for GSM networks, 2 RS for CDMA networks and 1Rs for BSNL. But...

In the future Ill have a cell phone that will be capable of doing all following. Receive AM, FM and all other sorts of radio Connect to GSM, CDMA, and any other network technology Receive and decode satellite video Receive and decode terrestrial TV transmission Be my wifi and wimax transceiver This is all that I can think of now. The point is that your cellphone will become a universal communication device that can handle any...

The event got over today, but the fun continues. The first thing I learned is that India can be the heaven of Free and Open Source Software. There are too many developers wanting to contribute. And they will if someone shows them how to get started. Then again Evangelisation… Javascript is going to become the language that dominates light weight application development. XML is here to stay, and is going to be seen in various...

According to Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM Standard), the size of each SMS is limited to 160-characters in order to avoid overloading in the standard forward-and-response operation of the SMS server. Larger content of SMS can be sent but they will be segmented over multiple messages, which lead to extra charges among the mobile phone users. Therefore Euzer Technologies Sdn Bhd has invented a novel and powerful SMS...

In an earlier post we saw how GSM networks are jammed when the SMS traffic increases. Now some smart kids can use this loop hole to attack GSM networks and cause service outage in targeted areas. This is very much similar to DOS (Denial of service) attacks in computer networks. Even though such a possibility exists, no one can bring down the entire service down. But its very much possible to bring down certain areas of a network,...

SMS traffic is doubling in every two years. Operators used to see this as a new revenue source. Many companies started offering services around SMS. But this explosive growth of  SMS has started to created problems, mainly a degradation of the voice services. Every operators are facing service problems during holidays and festival seasons just because of the large volume of SMS messages that are being sent. During New year almost...

BSNL Calcutta recently introduced Voice SMS services for its Landline, WLL and GSM customers. To access the service dial 1256 from your phone and wait for the IVR. Follow the instructions to record the message and input recipient numbers. The service currently supports 45 seconds of voice in a single message If the called party is busy 15 attempts will be made to deliver the message before the message is discarded. Group messaging...