Ahh, yes, telecoms will come to rescue poor users and give them free infrastructure. Current state of messaging across the world is super messy and sucks, but

Ahh, yes, telecoms will come to rescue poor users and give them free infrastructure. Current state of messaging across the world is super messy and sucks, but believing that telecoms are the answer is just naive. While sms allows you to communicate cross providers, the amount of money they charge, both historically and even nowadays for that is just insane. Att still charges $0.25 for international text messages, in 2018. Due to fragmentation of the market, the only way for them to stay in the game is to have something that’s shared, but boy, they do plan to make a lot money out of it.