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SMS was (and is) limited to 160 characters and costs you money to send each one. Not comparable to AIM.
by dbbk 9y ago
SMS was (and is) limited to 160 characters and costs you money to send each one. Not comparable to AIM.
- jandrese 9y agoSMS had the dubious distinction of being the most expensive way to send data outside of non-commercial satellite and exotic military technologies. I can remember fees of $.35 for 160 7-bit characters worth of data, using bandwidth that was otherwise just going to waste. Carriers got so greedy with SMS.
- chatmasta 9y agoThat comes to about $2.1 million per gigabyte. But it's also a bit of an unfair comparison since one user consumes far less bandwidth using SMS vs general data.