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The True Cost of SMS Messages

Posted by kdawson on from the call-it-$24K-a-song dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Adam Smith sez... by cob666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This statement doesn't make sense.
    A majority of drivers drive automatic transmissions http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=758867.
    The actual safety issue lies in the inability to concentrate on driving.

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