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>SMS is a spectacularly low-quality monolithic walled garden How do you figure? I can communicate with SMS to anyone in the world, on any mobile provider. Seem
by dTal 9y ago
>SMS is a spectacularly low-quality monolithic walled garden
How do you figure? I can communicate with SMS to anyone in the world, on any mobile provider. Seems pretty federated to me.
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- closeparen 9y agoEver tried to get an SS7 connection? Sure, you can rent access from Twilio, in the same way that you can rent access from Facebook. It’s extremely unlikely that you could ever become a full participant in either network.
- dTal 9y agoOkay, so there's a high barrier to entry. It's pretty hard to become an ISP too. That doesn't make either a walled garden. It's not so much about whether I personally could federate with the network, as it is about whether some reasonably large number of other entities could. I don't have exact numbers, but it seems there are 1000+ phone providers worldwide.
- JoshMnem 9y agoSMS isn't perfect, but it isn't really comparable to Facebook's chains.