Compatible with SMS standards
Users will find EMS as easy to use as SMS. At the moment 15 billion SMS messages, are sent every month worldwide. Roughly 80% of this traffic is
The Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) was first submitted to the standards committees by Ericsson. Ericsson presented the outline structure of EMS to the relevant ETSI/ 3GPP committees. The major mobile phone manufacturers and most operators are actively contributing to the 3GPP standards. Hence the EMS standards have evolved and are now stable and complete as part of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical specification.
An EMS message can be sent to a mobile phone that does not support EMS, or only supports part of EMS. All the EMS elements i.e. text formatting, pictures, animations and sounds are located in the message header. The EMS contents will be ignored by a receiving phone that does not support the standard. Only the text message will be displayed to the receiver. This is true
Some companies in the mobile phone industry have developed their own messaging technologies, which only work with their own phone models. Network operators are in favour of EMS because it is universal — many of the major mobile phone manufacturers are constructively improving and developing the EMS standards even further for implementation in their products.
Examples of EMS contents and applications
A wide range of contents, applications and services may be developed. Below is a list of examples and areas where messaging can be enhanced with EMS.
Messages usually originating from the keypad of a mobile phone can include pictures, melodies, formatted text with EMS.
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White Paper, August 2002
Voice and
Notifying mobile phone users that they have new voice or fax mail messages waiting - including icons or melodies with EMS.
Unified messaging
The user typically receives a short message notifying them that they have a new message in their unified messaging box, with icons or formatted text further enhancing the message.
Internet
An Internet
Ring signals
Downloading ring signals from the Internet.
News & commercials
World news illustrated, sports scores and news headlines, finance and stock market news with diagrams and tickers, commercial product promotions, weather reports with maps, tunes from TV commercials as ring signals.
Info & entertainment
Ring signals,
Corporate
Flight schedules, preinstalled corporate logos, map snippets and travel info, company branded icons and ring signals, corporate
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