Wireless Messaging Demystified: SMS, EMS, MMS, IM, and others

A booming worldwide craze-with approximately 113 billion messages exchanged in 2001-wireless messaging, like SMS, EMS, MMS, IM, and e-mail, is now ready to conquer the U.S. and world markets. This guide for telecom professionals tells you what you want to know about wireless messaging without getting mired in technical details. From messaging applications, to technical and architectural components, and the standards that have made SMS a success abroad, Wireless Messaging Demystified provides the vital details you want.

The easiest way to investigate why wireless messaging is one of the biggest communications successes ever, Wireless Messaging Demystified is the only guide you need to fully understand everything about mobile instant messaging, mobile commerce, and wireless location-based services, as well as how these technologies will unfold in the future.

• You need to know how SMS fits with IM and other emerging wireless messaging technologies
• You want to discover profitable messaging applications from automatic meter reading to getting a soda from a vending machine
• You desire details on development, implementation, and rollout of EMS and MMS for the general population and the enterprise
• You want to assess the appeal, uses, integration and future of SMS
• You require answers on how 3G will impact wireless messaging
• You can't get enough information on the newest trends transforming wireless communications

Contents

• Introduction
• The Wireless Playing Field
• MNVOs
• The Value Proposition of Wireless Messaging
• Today's Business Drivers for Wireless Messaging
• The Wireless Value Chain: Who Supplies What to Whom?
• Introduction to Acronyms and Industry Terms
• WAP and DoCoMo
• The Scene is Set

• How Will These Networks Affect Messaging?
• WWAN Technologies: Including CDMA2000 1xRTT, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and W-CDMA
• Duel and More
• Bluetooth
• WLANs
• WWAN, WLAN, and Bluetooth Technology Comparison
• 3G Driving Applications
• A Nokia 3G Application Case Study
• The Future of 3G

• Some Important Attributes of Today's Wireless Messaging
• Regionality: The Regional Nature of Wireless
• What is Short Message Service (SMS)?
• GSM versus Non-GSM SMS Architectures
• Instant Messaging (IM): What Is It and Where Is It Going?
• WAP: The Mobile Internet
• The Bearer Channel: How the Messages Get to Phones
• Circuit Switched Versus Packet Switched
• Details by Market Region
• The European Union's (EU's) Messaging Addiction
• Mobile Device Overview
• Getting Around the Text Input Problem

• From Person-to-Person (P2P) Messaging to Content and Services
• Following i-mode's Lead
• What Happened to WAP?
• Messaging in the United States
• What Makes a Wireless Messaging Application?
• What Are the Challenges Faced by the Various
• Parties Involved in Implementing Wireless Applications?
• A Survey of Wireless Messaging Applications
• Personal Services
• Professional Services
• Wireless Payment and Mobile Commerce
• Opportunities for Wireless Services in Remote Purchases
• The Future of Wireless Messaging Applications

• Infrastructure Overview
• Components of Wireless Messaging Solutions
• The Wireless Services Stack
• Physical Layer: Accessing the Network
• The Critical Role of the SMSC
• Connecting to the Carrier
• QoS of SMS
• Major SMSC Providers
• Wireless Gateways
• WAP: The Mobile Internet

• Wireless Messaging Post 2G
• Next-Generation Wireless Messaging Services
• MMS Dial M for Multimedia
• Wireless Messaging and Location-Based Services (LBS)
• Voice and Wireless Messaging
• Wireless Number Portability (WNP)