KBI 311630 Most Mobile Services Today Support Sending Long SMS Message Transparent To End User
Version
Argent Advanced Technology – All versions
Date
Monday, 5 March 2018
Summary
SMS protocol limits message length to 160 bytes
However, many mobile services today can handle long message transparently to end user
Internally, the message is broken into multiple 160-byte short messages to send out
These short messages are related with some unique identifier
When the short messages arrive, user device such as iPhone can assemble them into the original long message before presenting to end user
As a result, when user finds the alert text is truncated, which is typical if full Event detail is included, it is worthy increasing the text limit in Argent AT, and test out if the mobile service can handle it
It can be done in Argent Console Engine setting by setting limit to 9,999
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