Vodafone To Auction World’s First SMS ‘Merry Christmas’ As NFT in Paris, Pledges To Donate Proceedings for Charity

Published:Dec 7, 202304:56
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Telecom large Vodafone is all set to public sale the world's first-ever textual content message written in 1992 as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) in Paris. Vodafone is reportedly eyeing to fetch £150,000 to £200,000 in alternate for the 30-year-old SMS. The public sale will happen online on December 21, 2021. Vodafone mentioned that it'll donate the proceeds from the public sale to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Reportedly, Neil Papworth, a British software program architect created SMS and despatched a 15 character textual content message ' Merry Christmas' to Richard Jarvis, Director of Vodafone through Vodafone community on December 3, 1992. Soon, in 1993, Nokia got here up with a handset that was able to sending and receiving texts messages. MG Motor India Becomes First Carmaker To Introduce NFT Collection. Check Tweet: The public sale will likely be carried out by Aguttes and will likely be open to bidders around the globe. The patrons will likely be getting a reproduction of the unique communication protocol from the community and a visible illustration that includes the handset that obtained the first-ever SMS. Vodafone has mentioned that it'll not produce every other NFTs based mostly on the textual content message.

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