How can I send longer text? What are concatenated SMS messages?
The SMS technology allows you to send longer data by splitting data into segments and transmitting the segments as multiple SMS messages. Although one SMS message can only carry a very limited amount of data (140 bytes), a technology called concatenated SMS (also known as long SMS or multipart SMS technology), makes it possible to send longer text or data. A concatenated SMS text message can contain more than 160 English characters. Concatenated SMS works like this: The sender’s mobile phone breaks down a long message into smaller parts and sends each of them as a single SMS message. When these SMS messages reach the destination, the recipient mobile phone will combine them back to one long message. Concatenated messages are supported by Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. It does the SMS segmentation and reassembly seamlessly.
