enhanced messaging service (mobile communications) (EMS)
Enhanced Messaging Service(EMS) is an extended messaging standard for the short message service that includes the transmission of multimedia objects. It was launched by well-known mobile communications companies.
The foundations of the EMS standard were defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project( 3GPP), a standardization body that has also been instrumental in unifying the GSM and SMS platforms.
Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) adds new functionality to Short Message Service (SMS); SMS text messages can be enriched with simple images, sounds and animations. The standard size for images and animations is 96 x 32 pixels and the number of characters can be several times the 160 characters of the short message service. A further development of the EMS service is the Multimedia Messaging Service( MMS) with which documents can also be transmitted.
Receiving EMS messages requires an EMS-compatible cell phone.