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Why not talk about how, for most short messages, sending an SMS is cheaper than making a phone call to transmit the same information? The real question is: who
by hugh 18y ago
Why not talk about how, for most short messages, sending an SMS is cheaper than making a phone call to transmit the same information?
The real question is: who says that the cost of transmitting information should be linear with the amount of data? If you want to transmit a hundred bytes then SMS is a good way to do it. If you want to transmit five gigs, then some other way would be better.
- henning 18y agoBecause that's how things work in a lot of other services? For instance, if you sign up for shared hosting and go over your alloted bandwidth, they may charge you $0.50 a gigabyte or so. That is linear and it seems reasonable. What would happen if you could stream high-quality video from mobile phones? With large data transfer capabilities would come interesting new possibilities for markets, companjies, and customers.