There's nothing new about mobile phone users chatting with one another via SMS: Indeed, this is one of the applications which leads the GSM Association to predict that 20 billion such text messages will be exchanged by GSM subscribers this year.

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You could certainly send an SMS on one for example.

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In comparison, SMS notifications are sent at rates above one message per second require expensive short codes.

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