When the Short Message Service emerged worldwide as an accidental success in 1999, few believed that it would turn into the easiest, quickest and most cost-effective form of one-to-one communication just a few years later. The history of this social phenomenon is short, but record-breaking. Its usage growth rate has soared about 800 percent for a period of six years!!! And experts predict that this upward growth of SMS use will accelerate to even greater levels, reaching almost 4 trillion messages sent annually within the upcoming five years.