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China defends sweeping maritime claims after US criticism. In , seven years after the first SMS that was sent through Vodafone, text messages could finally be exchanged on multiple networks, accelerating their usage and popularity. It becomes possible to exchange text messages, no mater the operator of the other user. More affordable than calling, texting then quickly became the most used modern communication channel.

Indeed, an SMS is intended to be a small text limited to characters. This number was considered short enough to limit the bandwith technically required, and long enough to transmit information from one person to another. Twitter also determined the maximum number of characters to This limitation will support globally the use of abbreviations and emoticons. Many people remember the years when this number of characters really counted and led users to type shortened words and abbreviations in order not to exceed it.

In , the first packages that included unlimited SMS in the evenings and on weekends or part of the week appeared. About 6 billions of SMS are sent every year according to the ITU, International Communication Union the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, report.

The diffusion of written information has become widespread since the rise of smartphones and we now communicate more by writing than by phone calls. Messages with greetings for Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid and many other holidays are sent by billions of people all over the world using texts, videos, audio messages, and emojis.

As part of the ongoing paradigm shift from Web2 to Web3, Non-Fungible Tokens NFTs have entered the mainstream in the past 12 months after their general concept was already established a few years ago - similar to what Vodafone accomplished with sending the first-ever SMS to a mobile phone. NFTs serve as unique, blockchain-based ownership certificates for a variety of digital assets, such digital art, collectibles, in-game items or web domains. With their unique properties, NFTs, Non Fungible Tokens, help to protect digital works through an encrypted license that allows the collector to be the only holder of the artwork, not being able to be copied.

Indeed, NFTs are digital certificates that can't be falsified and that attest the authenticity of a virtual object. NFTs do not exist in the material world. Vodafone had 45 days to approach the government for a settlement, a timeline ended in November. With this, as many as 15 companies against whom retrospective tax demands were raised have approached the government to settle cases. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines.

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