[theanalyst]

Generally won't sms kind of services are limited to 160 chars. by operators? How are large articles etc. going to be handled

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Concatenated SMS as someone else mentioned, but there is also USSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Serv...

[masklinn]

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.

[smn]

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.

[smn]

s/Free/Freenode/

[youngerdryas]

Apparently using Vumi.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_over_SMS_%26_USSD

http://vumi.org