摘要 |
<p>A method and a home location register for starting a short message transmission in a mobile telephone network. To ensure that a short message is delivered successfully, a time supervision (701) is started on including an identity of a short message service centre (SC) in a subscriber-specific list. When a time preset in the time supervision expires, a short message transmission starting message (702) is transmitted to each one of the short message service centres (SC) the identity of which is included in the list; the identity of the short message service centre (SC) is deleted from the list contained in the home location register (HLR); each short message service centre (SC) transmits (703), in response to a short message transmission starting message (702), the short message to a gateway mobile exchange (GMSC) for it to be forwarded to a subscriber (MS).</p> |