What is Text Messaging?
The name for Verizon Wireless’ 1 and 2-way text messaging services. Text Messaging provides a fast, fun and economical alternative to phone calls. 1-way Messaging lets you receive: • email alerts from any Internet email • news, sports, weather, horoscopes • messages from others via the Internet • messages from 2-way wireless phones 2-way Messaging lets you send text messages to multiple wireless users and email addresses directly from a 2-way capable phone. It’s perfect: • keep it short! • where you can’t talk! • keep it private! • keep it affordable! You can send and receive text messages to other wireless users and e-mail addresses directly from your phone while keeping your communication short and/or private. Text Messaging and vtext.com are both automatically included with new activations on a pay as you go basis. Additional Messaging packages with allowances are available.
A. TBayTel Mobility’s two-way text messaging service provides you with an alternative to voice communication. Text Messaging lets you send short text messages to other cellular users directly from your cellular phone. You can also receive text messages on your cellular phone. Note: The phone originating and the phone receiving the Text Message must subscribe to the Text Messaging service feature.
Text messaging is a term for short communications made through cell phones. It uses what is called the Short Message Service, and so is often called SMS for short. It is also sometimes referred to as txting, using the shorthand common in text messaging as a way of dealing with short message limits and often bulky interfaces. The origin of text messaging is somewhere back in the late-1980s and early-1990s. The first commercial text messaging took place in 1991, sent from a computer to a handset. Text messaging didn’t catch on for some time after these initial texts, and by the mid-1990s it was scarcely being used throughout Europe. By 2000, text messaging was being used with some intermittent frequency in Europe and Asia, although it was still rarely used in the United States, and less than 20 billion text messages were sent worldwide.
Text messaging is an easy, fun and inexpensive way to communicate when you’re unable to talk on the phone. With 2-way text messaging, you can send and receive short messages of up to 160 characters in length. You can send a text message from your i-wireless phone directly to most other wireless phone.
