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White Paper
 
 
T310/T312
15
January 2003
Huge business potential
Network operators can now enhance their services 
and attract more customers by offering pictures, 
animations, ring signals and melodies for download 
at their portals. Operators can charge more per 
EMS message since it contains more data. Thereby 
EMS adds more value to the operators and to the 
end users.
Increase SMS revenue
EMS uses the same basic network support as 
ordinary SMS, and with the same familiar user 
interface. From an operator's point of view, SMS is 
low tech because minimal investment is needed to 
provide an effective EMS service to subscribers 
and little maintenance is required. EMS will create 
additional revenue for service providers and 
network operators by increasing SMS traffic.
Compatible with SMS standards
Users will find EMS as easy to use as SMS. At the 
moment 15 billion SMS messages are sent every 
month worldwide. Roughly 80% of this traffic is 
user-to-user, i.e. mobile phone users sending short 
messages to each other using the keypad of the 
phone to enter text. The remaining 20% is shared 
by downloads and notifications of different kinds.
The Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) was first 
submitted to the standards committees by 
Ericsson. Ericsson presented the outline structure 
of EMS to the relevant ETSI/3GPP committees. The 
major mobile phone manufacturers and most 
operators are actively contributing to the 3GPP 
standards. Hence the EMS standards have evolved 
and are now stable and complete as part of the 3rd 
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) technical 
specification.
An EMS message can be sent to a mobile phone 
that does not support EMS, or only supports part 
of EMS. All the EMS elements i.e. text formatting, 
pictures, animations and sounds are located in the 
message header. The EMS contents will be ignored 
by a receiving phone that does not support the 
standard. Only the text message will be displayed 
to the receiver. This is true consumer-friendly 
standardization. EMS is compatible to SMS across 
most of the range of mobile phones from the oldest 
to the newest.
Some companies in the mobile phone industry 
have developed their own messaging technologies, 
which only work with their own phone models. 
Network operators are in favour of EMS because it 
is universal – many of the major mobile phone 
manufacturers are constructively improving and 
developing the EMS standards even further for 
implementation in their products.
Examples of EMS contents and 
applications
A wide range of contents, applications and 
services may be developed. Below is a list of 
examples and areas where messaging can be 
enhanced with EMS.
User-to-user message
Messages usually originating from the keypad of a 
mobile phone can include pictures, melodies, 
formatted text with EMS.
Voice and e-mail notifications
Notifying mobile phone users that they have new 
voice or fax mail messages waiting - including 
icons or melodies with EMS.
Unified messaging
The user typically receives a short message 
notifying them that they have a new message in 
their unified messaging box, with icons or 
formatted text further enhancing the message.
Internet e-mail alerts
An Internet e-mail alert is provided in the form of a 
short message that typically details the sender of 
the e-mail, the subject field and first few words of 
the e-mail message, and in this case formatted text 
is excellent to identify message elements.
Ring signals
Downloading ring signals from the Internet.
News & commercials
World news illustrated, sports scores and news 
headlines, finance and stock market news with 
diagrams and tickers, commercial product 
promotions, weather reports with maps, tunes from 
TV commercials as ring signals. 
Info & entertainment
Ring signals, e-greetings, football club logo, joke-
of-the-day illustrated by pictures or sound, 
horoscopes, movie related animation or theme