Twenty years of Short Message Service (SMS): how text messaging helped to change the world

20 years of SMS

Dec 3, 2012 Categories: Industry, Technology

SMS is now 20 years old. The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992 in the UK and Ericsson was one of the key contributors to the standard. Prepaid charging systems helped mobile telephony and SMS take off a few years later. 2011 almost 10 trillion texts were sent in, and the technology can now change lives and improve safety.

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Twenty years of Short Message Service (SMS): how text messaging helped to change the world

Nov 30, 2012 Categories: Industry, Technology

Not many 20-year-olds can seriously claim to have changed the world, but that could be said about SMS, or text messaging as it’s also known. Twenty years on from the first text message – sent on December 3, 1992 – we look at how the technology rose from humble beginnings to become the world’s most popular data application.

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Africa embracing m-commerce

Aug 28, 2012 Categories: Industry, Reports

The mobile phone brought a new dimension to the economic life of Sub-Saharan Africa. A new ConsumerLab report examines how this dynamic region is embracing a new generation of m-commerce services.

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An African success story explained - It’s not about the phones

Jun 11, 2012 Categories: Ericsson Business Review

Kenyas leading operator Safaricom has built a mobile-money juggernaut with its M-PESA service.

Ericsson & MTN collaborate on M-wallet services

Feb 27, 2012 Categories: Press Releases

Mobile payments will rule

Nov 14, 2011 Categories: Ericsson Business Review

Globe Telecom’s Paolo Baltao talks about the perseverance and fine-tuning that went into making GCASH one of the very few success stories so far in mobile money.

ICT study shows development potential

Sep 14, 2011 Categories: Industry, Reports

There is an untapped potential for information and communications technology (ICT) in providing access to education, health, agriculture and financial services to the poorest populations, according to a new study released today.

Ericsson Money Services launches cross border international remittance service in Europe and Philippines

Jul 14, 2011 Categories: Corporate

• Next step in bringing a full suite of convenient, cost-efficient, secure and instant mobile financial services to consumers globally
• The new international remittance service connects with local partners Globe Telecom (GCash) and Smart Communications (Smart Money) e-wallet schemes
• Cross border money transfers to family and friends will now become more like mobile communication as connected mobile money services become available to and from seven European countries and the Philippines
• Overseas workers in Europe sending and receiving money to and from un-banked friends and family in the Philippines will be offered peace of mind through 24/7 safe access to their money making it as easy and instant to send as a text through their mobile phones
• Ericsson Money adds new ‘Invite Friends’ function in Europe as an easy way for families, ‘social sharers’, cash-only consumers and non-domestic workers to invite contacts to join Ericsson Money

Ericsson Money Services brings connected mobile money to Europe

Jun 8, 2011 Categories: Portfolio

• Ericsson Money available across seven European countries
• Connected mobile money services that make sending, receiving and spending money on mobile phones easy and instant
• Money transfers are now more like mobile communication, enabling convenient, instant and safe access for families, social sharers, cash-only consumers and non-domestic workers
• Plans to broaden availability of Ericsson Money and connect with other similar services globally

Badoo launches mobile payments In the UK with Ericsson

Apr 20, 2011 Categories: Portfolio

• Ericsson IPX enables mobile payments for premium content and features on Badoo social network
• Mobile payments simplify content purchasing and increase sales for freemium-based companies
• 114+ million subscribers on Badoo