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> premium rate number costs 10 cents wut, the absolutely most ordinary (in the realm of single telecom) text costs me ~6.5 cents
by eitau_1 4y ago
> premium rate number costs 10 cents
wut, the absolutely most ordinary (in the realm of single telecom) text costs me ~6.5 cents
- ender341341 4y agoCan I ask where? I'm in the US and any of the big carriers offer unlimited texting as a baseline, and we have pretty crappy carriers compared to a lot of the world.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoMaybe on prepaid plans? Been a while since I've heard of SMS costing anything on subscription plan, outside of roaming charges. Mobile Internet effectively cannibalized that income stream for the phone companies.
- eitau_1 4y agoyea, it's prepaid in Poland. But to be fair, I pay $12 a year for 50GB of data and don't call/text much
- kalleboo 4y agoIt costs me around 3 cents to send a domestic SMS and 40 cents to send an international one, on an unlimited data 5G plan in Japan. That said, I don't care, since I literally can not remember the last time I sent an SMS. It must have been years ago.
- ender341341 4y agoThat makes sense, I guess I forgot that lots of the world effectively moved on from SMS to other messaging/apps.
- MinorTom 4y agoIn Germany the standard price for an SMS is 9 cent, of which somewhere around 2-3 cents are paid to the recipient's carrier. Unlimited plans are common, but only because nobody texts anymore (same applies for phone calls).
- luma 4y agoYou’re talking about the fee your carrier charges for normal texts. These are “premium” charges, meaning the user is charged an extra fee on their bill regardless of their SMS billing plan.