SMS

SMS (Short Message Service) is a text messaging service component of phone, World Wide Web, and mobile telephony systems, using standardized communications protocols to allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices.

Why it’s in the news: SMS is in the news due to issues with carrier filtering blocking legitimate messages, new regulatory mandates for affordable plans, and security concerns like spoofing and network snooping.

Latest on SMS

• Carrier filtering is blocking legitimate SMS. The operators getting through are doing three things differently
• TRAI mandates wider selection of voice-and-SMS-only plans
• TRAI mandates affordable short-validity voice, SMS-only plans to help low-income users
• The SMS looks real and that’s exactly why you should be careful
• How Android 17 stops network snoops and SMS blasters now - with ECH and a 2G kill switch
• SC mandates SOPs, mechanisms to curb ‘digital arrests’, facilitate timebound refunds

Connections

5 entities linked to SMS across the news graph.