The first-ever text message sent out in the world by an engineer Neil Papworth to a mobile phone ‘Orbitel 901‘ owned by Richard Jarvis on 3 December, 1992
Believe it or not, Saturday marks 30 years since the first text message ever was sent out. Papworth was the person who sent the first-ever text.
‘Merry Christmas’ was the first text-message ever sent in the world 30 years back in 1992. It was sent to a mobile phone owned by Richard Jarvis by a vodafone engineer named Neil Papworth on 3 December 1992 to in Berkshire in the UK
Short-Messaging service (SMS) is a text-based communication method to easily communicate among people via technology such as cellphones or computers. The SMS concept was first created in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillerbrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. It is called short as it supports a maximum character of 160 including letters, numbers or symbols in the Latin alphabet despite of what kind of techonolgy used
Mr Jarvis had the latest phone in the market called Orbitel 901 on which he got the message of ‘Merry Christmas’. However, he didn’t reply to the message.
The First-ever text message sent out.
What is Orbitel 901?
The Orbitel 901 is the then state-of-the-art device supporting the advanced GSM technology and a major breakthrough in the history og GSM networks. It was launched in 1992 by UK-based phone maker Orbitel which was based in Basingtoke, Hampshire.
