10. A method for facilitating electronic communication between people who speak different languages, comprising: receiving an SMS message translation session request from a user; sending an SMS translation session grant response to the user; thereafter, receiving an SMS message including content in a first language; translating at least a portion of the content from a first language to a second language; and sending the SMS message with the content translated from the first language to the second language to a recipient directly from a network node at which the step of translating was performed; and re-translating the translated content to the first language and sending the thus re-translated content to an originator of the first SMS message without involvement of the recipient.
10. A method for facilitating electronic communication between people who speak different languages, comprising: receiving an SMS message translation session request from a user; sending an SMS translation session grant response to the user; thereafter, receiving an SMS message including content in a first language; translating at least a portion of the content from a first language to a second language; and sending the SMS message with the content translated from the first language to the second language to a recipient directly from a network node at which the step of translating was performed; and re-translating the translated content to the first language and sending the thus re-translated content to an originator of the first SMS message without involvement of the recipient. 12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the SMS message translation session is active indefinitely.