An Approach on Short Message Service Text Transfer for Turkish GSM Operators

Short Message Service (SMS) has been one of the most popular services in mobile communication for years, and its usage is still growing. However, with the usage of Turkish character(s) in SMS message text, the maximum length of a single message reduces from 160 to 70 characters due to the transmission regulations of SMS designated by Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. This results in inconvenient communication for cell phone users and causes extra SMS traffic congestion on GSM networks. In this paper, an algorithm – ThinOn, is proposed to solve problems arising with the usage of Turkish character(s). The proposed algorithm is language independent and can also be a prototype model for other languages having characters not included in GSM alphabet.