TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES APPARATUS (SMS ROUTER) AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING SHORT MESSAGES (SMS) VIA THE HOME NETWORK OF THE RECIPIENT

摘要

In a mobile telephone system, an SMS router (7) receives a mobile terminated text message from a terminal (1) addressed to the terminal (11) of a network subscriber. The received mobile terminated message is stored in an MT store (8), and then delivered to a required recipient, who may be the network subscriber and/or a different destination as a result of copy or divert. The SMS muter (7) receives a "send routing information for short message" signal from a signalling transfer point, global title translator or home location register, which provides information as to the original destination address of the received text message.