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The Golden Goose Called SMS
- gaius 18y agoI don't think it's that. For example, when I'm roaming, my carrier charges me 40p/SMS and 20p/MMS. You can perfectly easily send text messages by the latter. I think they're just trying to encourage people off the (presumably) older and creakier SMS infrastructure onto something fitter for purpose. Don't forget the SMS started off as a useful tool for engineers to test things; the carriers were taken by surprise when it took off with customers, so I bet the infrastructure they rushed into production to handle it is a mess.
- stcredzero 18y agoThere's no reason why IM and microblogging can't supplant SMS. Even ordinary phones are enough to run clients for those nowadays. The fact that it doesn't indicates the market is broken.