SMSn.
/ˌɛsɛmˈɛs/, U.S. /ˌɛsɛmˈɛs/ Telecommunications.
Short message service, a digital communication system enabling mobile phones to send and receive short text messages. Hence: a text message sent or received using this system.
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1991 K. Holley in IEE Colloquium on ‘GSM & PCN Enhanced Mobile Services’ Digest No. 23. 7/1 The GSM Short Message Service (SMS) has been designed to meet the messaging needs of the mobile telephone user over and above the real-time speech and data services.
1994 Re: GSM “Short Messages”==Pager? in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet newsgroup) 25 May Like if your voice-mailbox or fax-mailbox sent you an SMS every time it receives a message. We have that in Sweden.
1998 What Cellphone Nov. 19/1 We think that if you make it easier for people to use SMS, more will send text.
2000 Business Rev. Weekly 1 Dec. 133/3 Australians send about seven million SMS messages a week.
2003 T3 Mar. 131/4 Although Britons send millions of 160-character SMSs a day, mobile phone makers and networks are hoping the promise of sounds and images will help the unpopular EMS and the newer MMS.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
SMSv.
/ˌɛsɛmˈɛs/, U.S. /ˌɛsɛmˈɛs/ Telecommunications.
intransitive. To send a text message using SMS (see SMS n.); to communicate by SMS text messaging. Also transitive: to send a text message to (a person, mobile phone, etc.) using SMS; to communicate with (a person) by SMS text message. Cf. text v. Additions.
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1996 Re: CCL–>CCL Caller-ID is now Fixed in uk.telecom,cam.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 25 Mar. If orange suddenly charged the 5p/message and people who spend ages SMSing..had a big bill without warning.
1996 How to SMS a GSM in uk.telecom (Usenet newsgroup) 11 June Please tell me how to SMS a GSM phone via the internet.
2000 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 23 Aug. 95 Before you know it you will be SMSing each other adorable little symbols of your love.
2005 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 3 June 27 Drivers aged 18-21 had their eyes off the road four times as long as law-abiding drivers while frantically ‘SMSing’ when on the road.
2007 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 21 Apr. 3/4 [He] tried repeatedly to win her back, SMSing her daily, giving her a ring and speaking of marriage.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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