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Generally won't sms kind of services are limited to 160 chars. by operators? How are large articles etc. going to be handled

• youngerdryas 14y ago
  Apparently using Vumi. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_over_SMS_%26_USSD http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_over_SMS_%26_USSD http://vumi.org http://vumi.org
• masklinn 14y ago
  Concatenated SMS. A thing. The standard allows 255 segments of 134 bytes, for ~39000 7-bit characters (GSM 7-bit alphabet) or ~17000 UCS-2 code units.
  • smn 14y ago
    fwiw, it's built on Vumi which is Open Source http://github.com/praekelt/vumi http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Feel free to join us in #vumi on Free for any questions.
    • smn 14y ago
      s/Free/Freenode/
• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Concatenated SMS as someone else mentioned, but there is also USSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Service_Data#Uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Serv...