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AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte
- brk 18y agoThis is crap journalism at its finest. 1MB of SMS messages is about 6,500 texts (assuming that all of the 1MB is SMS, ignore overhead for this conversation). 6,500 texts would be more appropriately classified in the Unlimited $30/mo plan. So, 1MB of SMS costs $30/mo on AT&T. Unless it's a slow news day and we extrapolate from the worst-case scenario. Most people who are of a legal age to sign a cellphone contract generally understand that pay-per-use scenarios like this are rarely the best way to go.
- goofygrin 18y agoI swear I read this article (or a similar one that they ripped off) about a month ago... Ah yes, was an article about data being more expensive to text than to send to the hubble: http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html In any case, a google for sms megabyte turns up a ton of hits for this, most of them at least 6 months old. Good job TechCrunch! (is that sarcasm I smell?)