The True Cost of SMS Messages 583
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?"
Re:Adam Smith sez... (Score:5, Funny)
Dumb kids. (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Adam Smith sez...Hookers should be free. (Score:5, Funny)
Bit a cologne... A blazer... Listenin' a bit more than talkin'. Goes a long way, mate. Sometimes into the next day!
Yer pal, Alfie.
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Some of us like to live dangerously. On the rare occasions when I get text messages, I read them standing up.
Re:A LOT of air on the prices (Score:4, Funny)
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!
I wish it was the same in the UK (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:A LOT of air on the prices (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:Adam Smith sez... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Oh, I dunno... (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4196564 [go.com]
No, I'm New Here (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Adam Smith sez... (Score:3, Funny)
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...
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hidden words... (Score:5, Funny)
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."
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Sheldon
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