Comment Re:Oops (Score 1) 181
The intent is to use SMS as a reliable data transmission system in areas which don't necessarily have access to quality data connections. The type of messages being sent would likely be small updates from remotely deployed sensors or system management commands from remotely deployed hardware. There are pilot projects which have rural satellite hospitals in developing countries use SMS to transmit data.
Oliver also nicely characterized the behavior of SMS networks and added a useful transport layer on top of it.