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A lot more than with SMS. You can send someone an SMS but they are not going to respond because either they cost money or they have some tiny allowance of them.
by mantap 6y ago
A lot more than with SMS. You can send someone an SMS but they are not going to respond because either they cost money or they have some tiny allowance of them.
- bvcvbuiy 6y agoWhere I live mobile plans include unlimited SMS. Also I have a dumbphone and I am the only person my friend send SMS too. That makes me quite a unique person !
- mantap 6y agoThe point is that the penetration of WhatsApp is way higher than the penetration of unlimited SMS plans. So whatsapp has broader reach. SMS only works if you live in a region where unlimited SMS plans are standard AND you don't have any friends outside of that region OR WhatsApp doesn't have market share there. Basically only US.
- Stubb 6y agoOr they know that responding via SMS only encourages the use of a messaging system whose time has past.
- georgeolaru 6y agoWhat is the limit of SMS allowance on your network?
- milankragujevic 6y agoThere are cheap postpaid packages with only data (a lot, >10 GB) and ~100 minutes, SMS is paid per message.