sonunigam (Love Geek):
. .Los Angeles Times has an article on why text messages are limited to 160 characters. Read the abstract below. *
09-01-11 - 11:55:13

sonunigam (Love Geek): In 1985, Friedhelm Hillebrand of Bonn, Germany and a dozen others had been laying out the plans to standardize a technology that would allow cellphones to transmit and display text messages. *
09-01-11 - 12:04:19

sonunigam (Love Geek): Because of tight bandwidth constraints of the wireless networks at the time, each message would have to be as short as possible. *
09-01-11 - 12:05:00

sonunigam (Love Geek): Hillebrand has conducted an informal study using his typewriter on how many characters are required on an average to express a sentence 0r question, by typing out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. *
09-01-11 - 12:05:59