So sometimes a short message can't reach 70 Chinese characters. At present, most mobile phones in the market support the automatic merging function of long short messages, which can automatically merge the received long short messages into one display screen. However, in the process of network transmission, many short messages will be sent and many expenses will be recorded.
In fact, every time you send a text message, it is sent to the SIM card operator, and then the operator forwards it to the person you want to send. Operators are limited to 70 words, that is to say, every time a message is sent, more than 70 words will be charged, and more than 140 will be charged for 3 words, and so on.
China Mobile currently limits a short message to about 150 characters, which is equivalent to 70 Chinese characters. Nowadays, many mobile phones can write hundreds of words or more for editing a short message, but after you send it, the short message platform will automatically charge you a short message fee in segments, which means that if you send a short message with 100 Chinese characters, the mobile company will charge you a short message fee twice.
SMS carries more and more cultural functions, and SMS culture gradually permeates all aspects of social life. The impact of short messages on society is enormous. As a cultural medium, its appearance announced the arrival of a new media era.
The writing of short messages is different from spoken language and network symbols. Short message media is not only different from traditional print media, but also different from almost flooded web pages. Everyone in the "short message family" is writing and reading something that they can get information quickly. These things may be words or just a combination of punctuation marks. This is the difference in form. In essence, short messages highlight the original meaning of exchanging information with limited words, and abandon all hypocritical politeness and irrelevant circuitous.