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"According to Wikipedia, the first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset.\r\nThe text of the message was &amp;quot;Merry Christmas&amp;quot;.\r\nThe technology behind the SMS text is 27-years old, having first been\u00A0developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. It was then, eight years later, that the &amp;quot;Merry Christmas&amp;quot; text was sent.\r\n\r\nSince then, SMS technology has come a long way to dominant the current mobile messaging scene. In 2010,\u00A0SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in revenues worldwide, but many believe it's just the beginning.\u00A0Experts estimate\u00A0that\u00A0mobile networks will earn $726 billion from SMS text messaging over the next five years. So while smartphone applications like GroupMe and services like Apple's iMessage start to make up larger slices of the text messaging field, SMS is not giving up its mobile messaging throne anytime soon.\r\n\r\nNow, it's time to send a happy birthday text!\r\n\r\n&amp;amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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