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IMS / VoLTE Mobile Networks RFCs & Standards

SMS-over-IP Message Efficiency – K

How much overhead is used to send the message “K” back to an SMS?

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Mobile Networks RFCs & Standards

MMS Deep Dive – MM1 – Mobile Terminated MMS

Second part in our MMS series, in this one we look at Mobile Terminated MMS.

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GSM IMS / VoLTE Mobile Networks VoIP

Sending SMS with an alphanumeric String as the Source

If you’ve ever received an SMS from your operator, and the sender was the Operator name for example, you may be left wondering how it’s done. In IMS you’d think this could be quite simple – You’d set the From header to be the name rather than the MSISDN, but for most SMSoIP deployments, the […]

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5G SA IMS / VoLTE Kamailio LTE Mobile Networks VoIP

The Surprisingly Complicated World of SMS: Apple iPhone MT SMS

Quirks and gotchas of working with SMS on IMS on iPhones.

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GSM IMS / VoLTE Mobile Networks

The Surprisingly Complicated World of SMS: Special Characters

A look at how characters are encoded in an SMS.

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GSM IMS / VoLTE Mobile Networks

The Surprisingly Complicated World of SMS: Concatenated / Multipart SMS

Another deep dive into deceptively simple seeming functions to do with SMS.

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5G SA Mobile Networks

SMS in 5GC

The first SMS was sent in 1993, and all these years later as 5G rolls out, we’re still supporting it.

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EPC GSM IMS / VoLTE LTE Mobile Networks RFCs & Standards

The Surprisingly Complicated world of MO SMS in IMS/VoLTE

Short messaging can be anything but simple…

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EPC EUTRAN GSM IMS / VoLTE LTE Mobile Networks

Sending SMS in Open5GS LTE Networks using the SGs Interface and OsmoMSC with SMSoS

Sending SMS over LTE using OsmoMSC and OsmoHLR and the SGs interface for SMSoS

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EPC EUTRAN GSM LTE Mobile Networks

OsmoMSC and Open5GS MME – SGs Interface for InterRAT Handover & SMS

Looking into the SGi interface for Circuit Switched Fallback in LTE to use GSM/UMTS networks for Calls & SMS

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Australian Telco Security

SMS Security – Banks

The other day I got an SMS from my bank, one of the big 4 Australian Banks. BANKNAME Alert: Block placed on card ending in XXXX, for suspicious transaction at ‘THING NICK PURCHASED ONLINE’ for $29.00 at 13:56. If genuine, reply ‘Yes’. If Fraud, reply ‘No’. SMS from bank They’d detected possible fraud on my […]