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From a technical perspective it's all just bytes. The fact that we (myself included) think of calls, texts and data as three separate things just shows how far
by michaelbuckbee 15y ago
From a technical perspective it's all just bytes. The fact that we (myself included) think of calls, texts and data as three separate things just shows how far off the rails things have gone. It's like if my home internet bill was divided into Skype Minutes, Emails Sent and Web Data.
- TylerE 15y agoWell, they're just bytes OVER THE NETWORK. But once those bytes hit the telco at the other end, and go out over the POTS network, that's not free to the originating carrier.
- robocat 15y agoFrom a technical perspective they are not the same. Voice has complex/expensive real-time requirements (and emergency service, reliability requirements too), but predictable (low) bandwidth. Data can max out internal edges of a network and over-usage issues.