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GSM History: History of GSM, Mobile Networks, Vintage Mobiles
There is a story worthy of a minor Hollywood movie about the father of SMS and Matti Makkonen but it is not quite the story many might imagine.
My research could find absolutely no link between Matti Makkonen and the conception or development of SMS. Instead a comedy of errors emerges.
Matti makonnen biography books
What is nearer to the truth is a story that begins with a shy local Nokia manager being interviewed by a lady reporter for a local Finnish newspaper. During the interview he makes a throw away remark that, whilst having a pizza in a Copenhagen pizza parlour, he imagined the potential of sending text messages on mobile phones.
But as far as I can tell the only person he ever communicated this idea to was the local journalist interviewing him. Certainly the Chairman of GSM at the time has no recollection or record of it. The journalist then embellishes the story that he was the “father of SMS”.
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