Glossary

This refers to the amount and immediacy of information that can be transmitted. In the world of messaging, that richer conversations include video chat, voice messages, picture sharing, activated buttons, and ecommerce ordering tools.

Concatenated messages are messages that require particular encoding to overcome the characters' limit in a single SMS. Long messages are divided into smaller messages by the sending device and recombined at the receiving end. Each message is then billed separately.

Refers to the region within which a paging receiver can reliably receive the transmission of the paging signals.

Communications Platform as a Service or Cloud communications platform is a cloud-based platform enabling developers to add real-time communications features (voice, video, and SMS messaging) in their own applications without needing to build backend infrastructure and interfaces.