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Service centre functionality

Friday, February 6, 2009

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The service centre is designed to: * submit a short message to a handset, retaining the responsibility for the message until the report has been received or the validity period expires * receive a report from the mobile network * receive a short message from a mobile handset * return a report to the mobile [...]

How are messages routed in the network

Friday, February 6, 2009

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In the case of a campaign pushing a message out to a group of subscribers, the service centre interrogates the HLR database to retrieve routing information necessary to forward each SMS-MT message–one per subscriber–and then sends the message to the relevant MSC, transiting other networks if necessary. The MSC then sends the short message to [...]