I am from the UK. SMS or texting as we prefer to call it is very popular because of the low price involved. I am on the Orange mobile network. Calls cost 35p/min peak and 5p/min off-peak on my contract where I don't pay any line-rental or any other expense except for the cost of the phone.
I paid £15 to Orangefor an "extra" from their service. This allows me to send five text (SMS) messages per day for free for life or as long as the 2G network exists. So now it doesn't cost me anything to send a txt (SMS).
Orange have removed that deal now, but they still give everyone who signed up their five free messages a day.
Because I bought a £50 top-up card, that is £50 of credit I get all extra messages for only 5p/message.
txts are anomynous and easy, thats one of many reasons why they're popular. Because each message is limited to 160 characters, they have sprung up a new language of words that are shorter than normal english words. Someone even answered their exam paper using the txt language.
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I am from the UK. SMS or texting as we prefer to call it is very popular because of the low price involved. I am on the Orange mobile network. Calls cost 35p/min peak and 5p/min off-peak on my contract where I don't pay any line-rental or any other expense except for the cost of the phone. I paid £15 to Orangefor an "extra" from their service. This allows me to send five text (SMS) messages per day for free for life or as long as the 2G network exists. So now it doesn't cost me anything to send a txt (SMS). Orange have removed that deal now, but they still give everyone who signed up their five free messages a day. Because I bought a £50 top-up card, that is £50 of credit I get all extra messages for only 5p/message. txts are anomynous and easy, thats one of many reasons why they're popular. Because each message is limited to 160 characters, they have sprung up a new language of words that are shorter than normal english words. Someone even answered their exam paper using the txt language.