Happy Birthday Dear SMS I was delighted this week to accept an invitation from the Mobile Data Association to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Neil Papworth sending the world’s first commercial text message in December 1992.
It’s incredible that something that is still, by many, perceived a new media technology is actually 15 years old! Like most technologies the humble SMS clearly took some time to take off, but how it has, now running at in excess of 1.2 billion messages per week.(Source www.text.it) The event will also include a panel discussion on the evolution of SMS and the future of mobile messaging featuring participants from Vodafone, Ovum Research, the MDA and MMA so it will be very interesting to see where the industry sees the next 15 years taking us. Congratulations to all involved.