Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Shenzhen-based ZTE Corp., China's largest publicly traded telecommunications equipment supplier, announced that it has developed the world's first 2-megabyte short message service center, Sina.com reported.
The center, jointly developed with China United Communications Corp's Jiangsu branch, will greatly improve Jingsu Unicom's CDMA-based SMS, with its significantly expanded traffic volume, simplified networks and reduced operational cost, ZTE officials said. CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, is a third-generation communications technology standard.
An integral part of the new center is the functional software that ZTE has developed, to cater to the smooth transition of the short message service center from the existing 64-kilobytes to the 2MB capacity and as well as support the coexistance of the two systems, the company's officials said.  This renders the telecom network more stable and reliable.
The center will help telecom operators to cope with the fast growing message traffic amidst the rapid SMS development, the officials added.
This year, China is estimated to send 550 billion messages nationwide and in 2006 the volume is predicted to hit 1.4 trillion.
According to the company, in the year 2001, ZTE had initiated the development of the 2MB high-speed signal link system, which is the the message center's core technology.