These days, fewer and fewer text messages are being sent from person to person. At the same time, the market share of messaging from software applications to personal mobile phones (A2P) and between machines (M2M) is growing all the time.

Although alternative short messaging services (« messengers ») are gaining in popularity all the time, a good old-fashioned SMS is still the only choice if you want to make sure your message is received by all cell phones.