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Hi.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I had the idea that originally sms were designed for short informative purposes (for example, when you had a message in your voicebox (?) ). My first gsm phone didn't send sms messages, it only received them. And this was quite usual, only high range models could send them.
I think that the success of sms as a mean of communicating between users was completely unexpected by mobile providers.
Once they were so successful, providers prefered to expand their capabilities at a higher cost (for example, allowing extended sms by concatenation of simple ones, thus paying more money!)
Greetings,
L.
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