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Re:Wikipedia over SMS: Getting Wikipedia to the people who n... by masklinn on Monday February 25, 2013 @10:29AM (#5279355)
Concatenated SMS. A thing.

The standard allows 255 segments of 134 bytes, for ~39000 7-bit characters (GSM 7-bit alphabet) or ~17000 UCS-2 code units.

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Re:Wikipedia over SMS: Getting Wikipedia to the people who n... by smn on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @05:04AM (#5284791)
fwiw, it's built on Vumi which is Open Source http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Feel free to join us in #vumi on Free for any questions.
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Re:Wikipedia over SMS: Getting Wikipedia to the people who n... by smn on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:10PM (#5288658)
s/Free/Freenode/
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