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Just ask all your contacts to stop sending/receiving texts and stick to e-mails. Voice and SMS are legacy technologies, so they cost more than pure data. Althou
by iwwr 16y ago
Just ask all your contacts to stop sending/receiving texts and stick to e-mails. Voice and SMS are legacy technologies, so they cost more than pure data. Although, the reliability of a voice connection is higher than the equivalent VoIP tunnel.
- robin_reala 16y agoAmong my friends email is far more legacy than SMS. I guess you’re USian though? In the UK pretty much every call plan includes more txts than you could feasibly use in a month, and it doesn’t cost anything to receive them.
- iwwr 16y agoEU here, yes it costs nothing to receive, but it's still around 5 eurocents to send one. 5 cents for a couple of bytes is still a lot. As for MMS, let's not even go there, that is a true ripoff. E-mail is not quite legacy. What would you suppose could replace it?
- robin_reala 16y agoI’ve just had a look around the providers in the UK - the most basic talk plans include at least 100 txts a month, but go one step up and you generally get unlimited. As for MMS, everyone I know just uploads photos to Facebook instead. Email just doesn’t fit a usecase for my friends for the most part (and I’m talking as a 30-something, not a teenager). For short messages there’s a txt, for short broadcast and medium messages there’s Facebook and for long messages generally you ring. There’s obviously still a use for email in the workplace, but it’s confined to there.
- edderly 16y agoHere's an interesting perspective of text versus email: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/03/faster-than-a-locomotive-leap-over-giant-buildings-yes-sms-text-messaging-twice-the-users-of-email-t.html http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/03/faster-... tl;dr SMS is $100 billion business, is hugely popular and still growing.
- ra 16y agoThat's a great article, thanks for posting.