subject: Text Messages [print this page] Text messages are a common means of communication among private subscribers although businesses are coming up rapidly to reap from the service. When the send text message service between business and mobile phone subscribers became evident, there was a need for short message gateways to control the resultant traffic. The main reason why the gateways were established was also to carry critical mission messages, for entertainment and for content delivery. Media agenda voting especially on radio and television heavily depends on this service to know more about the audience opinions. The gateway providers are categorized as mobile phone aggregators.
Rules and regulations governing different countries should be upheld when one has to send text message. It is important to comprehend that text messages can be used in the court of law to provide evidence against a defendant. Messages that convey abusive statements and other related information should be used carefully. Many countries have taken the issue of text messages seriously because they can easily bring the state into a commotion and hamper peace. Writing mobile phone text while on a relaxed mood rather than driving is justified. Otherwise, this could be an avenue for deaths of citizens who are its human resources while others will be left widows and orphans.
Other people have resorted to the use of SMS to send text message that is sexist. That is, they are sexually provoking and this could be both a moral and legal implication depending on whom the recipient of the message is. When used to harass somebody's spouse, workmate and so forth, it will be considered illegal.
The send text message service, or SMS, which was widely used by criminals in planning and conducting crime, should be considered as overtaken by events. In the world today, mechanisms to track messages exist. A British company in 2003 developed the Fortress program used alongside Symbian phones which used encryption to protect text messages.
Deleted text messages can still be retrieved courtesy of the program and this technology has been widely used by crime investigators. For instance, crime investigators managed to convict evidence against a self confessed murder; she had send text message anonymously to her targets. Sara Syon, a Swedish culprit had allegedly murdered the wife of Pastor Fossmo Helge, Linde Knutby. In Malaysia, a judge ruled that divorce wouldn't be justified by sending text messages.
