SMS uses a cellular network to travel from your phone to the nearest tower. From the tower, that message goes to the SMSC (acronym alert — that stands for short messaging service center) and then to the recipient. The SMSC acts like a post office for your wireless network. They’re res...
Updated on 25 October 2011 What Does Short Message Service Center Mean? A short message service center (SMSC) is the part of a wireless network that manages SMS operations, which includes storing, routing and forwarding inbound short messages to their desired endpoints. Advertisements The SMSC ...
such as Skype. An SMS message is sent from a device to a Short Message Service Center (SMSC), which, in turn, communicates with mobile networks to determine the subscriber’s location. Then, the message is forwarded as a small
When you send an MMS, it travels to a MMSC (multimedia messaging service center). The MMSC then notifies the SMSC (short message service center), who then sends a message to the recipient’s device that an MMS is waiting for them — and voila, your MMS has been sent. SMS vs MMS So...
–SMS:System should be able to monitor, retrieve and digitally store Multi Lingual SMS data including Multimedia and provide the following minimum information with each intercepted SMS: SMS Direction, Monitored Number, SMSC Number, SMS Content, IMEI (Calling No. & Called No.), IMSI (Calling Numb...
Application connectivity to a wireless carrier’s short message service center (SMSC): A developer must be familiar with the SMSC protocol and may want to enable messaging to phones with different wireless carriers. This becomes complicated because different carriers may use different SMSCs and differ...