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Why is there a 160 characters limit on SMS/Text Messages?

April 26, 2017characters limit Messages SMS text

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Why is there a 160 characters limit on SMS/Text Messages?

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SMS was designed to deliver short bursts of data for simple communication. To avoid overloading the system with more than the standard forward-and-response operation, the inventors of SMS agreed on a 160-character maximum message size.