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The True Cost of SMS Messages
nilbog writes "What's the actual cost of sending SMS messages? This article does the math and concludes that, for example, sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS. Why has the cost of bandwidth, infrastructure, and technology in general plummeted while the price of SMS messages have risen so egregiously? How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission?"
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Pay anything for instant gratification. :-)
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Bit a cologne... A blazer... Listenin' a bit more than talkin'. Goes a long way, mate. Sometimes into the next day!
Yer pal, Alfie.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
It's even more dangerous to be reading text messages while driving(or anything other than sitting down),
Some of us like to live dangerously. On the rare occasions when I get text messages, I read them standing up.
The fact that the data content is far smaller is simply due to the ingenious idea of letting the user do the compression.
Heh, I like this concept. Perhaps the wireless companies-to the dissatisfaction of English teachers everywhere-are also subversively encouraging the use of SMS lingo. For example, "r u going to the mall 2night" is compressed to 82% of the original size of "are you going to the mall tonight". Those bastards will do anything to make a buck!
Why do so many people seem to have to phone someone just to shout "Hi. I'm on the train...yes the train ....now Its leaving the station.... bye".
And then on the intercity trips there is always someone next to you that obviously uses his phone for business but has that really loud ringtone of Abba singing "Waterloo". He always puts his phone back in his pocket after each call and then takes 20 seconds to get it out again when he's called two minutes later.
It is even easier where I live. I just type "pub 15" and receiver immediately understands that it means a hectic beer drinking festival at the pub starting 15 minutes from now, put on your clothes and get your ass to the pub. So the compression rate is enormous! It also helps that there is only one pub in the town...
You don't know what you don't know.
Does this mean that I am going to have to stop talking back to my Sat Nav in a vain attempt to find out exactly what language Ken understands?
If you read a speed reading book, does it take you less time to read the second half?
You should ask Kwame. He's learning the true price of text messages. =)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4196564
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It's all over the place.
Not that I should talk, having used VNC from my phone to start a remote backup while driving (shh!). I was at a red light at the time...
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Max.
If you think CT is bad, try crossing the border to Rhode Island. I seriously think the reason the majority of them don't use their turn signals is because they don't want to reveal their plan to the enemy.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
You never know how many hidden words are in a conversation like that.
Translation: "Honey, I know you've been seeing somebody, but I don't want to know about it. Please get him out of our bed---MY BED---before I get home."
I once had a signature.
My friend texts while driving all the time. I'm just waiting til the day I get a half finished message. Then I'm just gonna respond "Serves you right, dumbass"
You aren't from around here are you? You see, here in the USofA we have Starbucks which has paid the US Auto industry to only sell automatic transmissions. This allows us to wrecklessly weave down our huge roads with a triple latte in one hand and a RAZR in the other. No shifting necessary unless we hit someone, then we have to shift into reverse and take another sip and tell the person on the phone to hold on for a second.
Sheldon
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