Generally speaking, the process of long messaging involves splitting messages that exceed the legal length of an individual SMS into two or more SMS that keep within the legal length. To do this, we facilitate 4 different methods which can be implemented on a 'strict' basis or 'graceful' basis.
The following text is a sample message which will be used to demonstrate each method:
This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrate how a long plain-text message would be delivered using different methods of long messaging.
Nothing else happens except for long messages being split into shorter SMS.
| Strict Implementation | |
| SMS 1: | This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered usin |
| SMS 2: | g different methods of long messaging. |
Graceful Implementation |
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| SMS 1: | This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered |
| SMS 2: | using different methods of long messaging. |
In addition to being split, each SMS contains the total number of SMS used by the long message as well as the position that it holds.
| Strict Implementation | |
| SMS 1: | 1/2-This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered u |
| SMS 2: | 2/2-sing different methods of long messaging. |
Graceful Implementation |
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| SMS 1: | 1/2-This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered |
| SMS 2: | 2/2-using different methods of long messaging. |
In addition to being split, each SMS (except for the last) ends with an ellipsis that signifies the message is 'to be continued'.
| Strict Implementation | |
| SMS 1: | This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered us... |
| SMS 2: | ing different methods of long messaging. |
Graceful Implementation |
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| SMS 1: | This is a really, really, really long (well not that long) message which has been prepared to demonstrated how a long plain-text message would be delivered... |
| SMS 2: | using different methods of long messaging. |
In addition to being split, the header of each SMS explains to the recipient mobile that it belongs to a longer message and the recipient mobile takes the responsibility of re-assembling them. Although there is no need to give examples, concatenation can be implemented 'gracefully' to account for receiving handsets which do not support concatenation and must therefore display each message separately.