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Probably because of the restricted character set available in SMS messages?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38



Right, but with the GSM 7-bit alphabet they could easily expand their index table to 127 entries rather than Base64's 64, netting them much greater efficiency.




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