- Tues 15:24
It’s been estimated 8 trillion text messages were sent last year. 20yrs ago how popular did you think sms would get and what did you think it would be used for?
- Tues 15:40
20yrs ago I didn’t see sms as separate issue – it was just a feature in the revolutionary mobile communications system. Very useful for quick business needs.
- Tues 15:45
You never got any money for it as you didn’t patent the idea. Is that a regret – or are you glad how things worked out?.
- Tues 15:58
I don't think I made a patentable innovation, but was one of the early persons to understand the need and the concept. I’m glad the work was done as part of GSM.
- Tues 18:03
You've been described as the “reluctant father of SMS” and it took a newspaper investigation to identify you. Why were you so quiet about your achievement?
- Weds 06:05
I did not consider sms as personal achievement but as result of joint effort to collect ideas and write the specifications of the services based on them.
- Weds 12:22
Cn u txtspk?
- Weds 12:26
No! My passion is to write correct language (Finnish), using all 160 characters.
- Weds 12:28
What do you think of people who do? Do you hate it?
- Weds 12:33
No, I don’t hate them. Actually sms can also be seen as a way for language to develop. More symbols, less characters.
- Weds 14:26
What do you make of sexting? A lot of high profile figures have come to regret some of their more explicit messages!?!
- Weds 15:18
In my mind private messages of high profile persons should be kept out of public discussion. Privacy belongs to telecommunication as much as to private letters.
- Weds 17:08
Do you suffer from text spam? If so what kind?
- Weds 17:16
Not at all. Finnish legislation is quite protective. Marketing messages are allowed only if you really allow them. Spam calls are more often problem.
- Weds 18:47
Do you prefer typing in a keypad or touchscreen? And how fast are you?
- Weds 20:11
I love touchscreen. Slow enough to think and sometimes even edit what I write.
- Weds 20:13
Will sms survive another 20 years – or will Facebook, Skype and other instant messaging chat systems take over?
- Weds 20:30
20 years is long time… I believe that reliable convenient to use text messaging will stay forever. Is not necessary what we call sms. No more pay per message.
- Thurs 10:38
It was 8 years between your idea of SMS and the first text being sent. Were you surprised it took so long?
- Thurs 14:26
No. Actually I felt myself as a customer, who had noticed a need. I was happy to see that the development was going on in a gsm working team. The real launch of the service, as I see it, was when Nokia introduced the first phone that enabled easy writing of messages (Nokia 2010 in 1994).
- Thurs 14:41
Do you have any other big idea for the future!?!
- Thurs 15:06
Not my idea but integration of mobile content display to my eyeglasses would be nice. Maybe someone is working with it?
