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Old Feb 11, 2016 | 9:18 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
Except that Verizon's Message+ when sending over Wifi/IP is not actually SMS. It is IM. SMS is actually a protocol that cannot be run over IP. You can receive an SMS message and re-encapsulate it into an IP-based IM, but at that point it is no longer SMS. Strictly speaking of course.
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