Concatenated messages

Introduction

A concatenated message is a message that is longer than the allowed length for a single message given its coding value.
By default our gateway allows for concatenated messages to be sent.
For example: a message that contains 175 characters would normally be sent it two parts.
The first part would be 160 characters long and the second 15 characters long.
Our gateway will send the message as a single message automatically. internally it will be viewed as a two part message. first part is 153 characters long (instead of 160, see introduction section) and second part is 22 characters long.

Unicode non GSM-7 coded messages vs GSM-7 encoded messages

Any message that contains one or more non GSM-7 characters is a unicode non GSM-7 coded message.

Concatinated message length

A message part is the total number of characters allowed in a message given is coding value.
By default we allow for 5 parts per message.

GSM-7 non unicode messages

A massage part for GSM-7 coded messages is 153 characters long, we allow a total of 5 such parts to be sent is a single message for a total message length of 765.

Unicode non GSM-7 messages

A massage part for unicode non GSM-7 coded messages is 63 characters long, we allow a total of 5 such parts to be sent is a single message for a total message length of 315.