Editing SMS (section)

=== Early implementations ===
The first SMS message<ref name="First SMS">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2538083.stm |title=Hppy bthdy txt! |date=3 December 2002 |website=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120045138/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2538083.stm |archive-date=2007-01-20 |url-status=live}}</ref> was sent over the [[Vodafone]] GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from [[Neil Papworth]] of [[Sema Group]] (now [[Airwide Solutions|Mavenir Systems]]) using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset. The text of the message was "Merry Christmas."<ref name="Neil Papworth">{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/uk-hails-10th-birthday-of-sms/articleshow/30216466.cms |title=UK hails 10th birthday of SMS |date=4 December 2002 |website=The Times of India}}</ref>

The first commercial deployment of a [[short message service center]] (SMSC) was by [[Aldiscon]] part of [[Logica]] (now part of [[CGI Inc.|CGI]]) with Telia (now [[TeliaSonera]]) in Sweden in 1993,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.logica.com/history%2Band%2Bkey%2Bmilestones/350233679 |title=First commercial deployment of Text Messaging (SMS) |access-date=May 24, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316145401/http://www.logica.com/history%2Band%2Bkey%2Bmilestones/350233679 |archive-date=March 16, 2008 }}</ref> followed by Fleet Call (now [[Nextel]])<ref>{{cite web |author=US Department of Homeland Security |title=Cellular Technologies |url=https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/3260%20TOD%20CELLULAR%20PHONE%20TECHNOLOGIES.pdf |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524003007/https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/3260%20TOD%20CELLULAR%20PHONE%20TECHNOLOGIES.pdf |archive-date=May 24, 2012 }}</ref> in the US, Telenor in Norway<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our history in Norway|at=1993|url=https://www.telenor.com/about/who-we-are/history/our-history-in-norway/|quote=Telenor leads in establishing GSM (2G) – the SMS service was a part of this platform|access-date=3 December 2022|website=Telenor Group|archive-date=3 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203214126/https://www.telenor.com/about/who-we-are/history/our-history-in-norway/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and BT Cellnet (now O2 UK).<ref>{{cite news |title=BT unveils new mobile brand |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1522609.stm |newspaper=BBC News Online |date=September 3, 2001 |access-date=November 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409180842/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1522609.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first commercially sold SMS service was offered to consumers, as a person-to-person text messaging service by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa) in Finland in 1993.  Most early GSM mobile phone handsets did not support the ability to send SMS text messages, and [[Nokia]] was the only handset manufacturer whose total GSM phone line in 1993 supported user-sending of SMS text messages. According to [[Matti Makkonen]], an engineer at Nokia at the time, the [[Nokia 2010]],<!--Not 2110--> which was released in January 1994, was the first mobile phone to support composing SMSes easily.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nael |first=Merili |title=Suri tekstisõnumite looja Matti Makkonen |language=et |trans-title=Creator of text messages Matti Makkonen died |work=Err.ee |publisher=[[Eesti Rahvusringhääling]] |date=June 30, 2015 |url=https://www.err.ee/537689/suri-tekstisonumite-looja-matti-makkonen |access-date=July 27, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055510/http://uudised.err.ee/v/majandus/7155b340-33ce-40d3-8a26-0f8644be4a24 |url-status=live }}</ref>