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I wrote a blog article on this sometime back. http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2008/05/07/The-Actual-Cost-of-Texting2c-Short-Codes-and-a-731425-Mark-up.aspx http:

I wrote a blog article on this sometime back. http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2008/05/07/The-Actual-Cost-of-Texting2c-Short-Codes-and-a-731425-Mark-up.aspx http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2008/05/07/The-Actual-Cost-of-... I totally agree. This business model needs disruption badly.

saurik 14y ago
This article makes no sense: just because the device has to be connected to the control channel does not mean that the control channel bandwidth is somehow free. The control channel is, as you say, the same channel used to keep track of devices, and it is a single channel that has to be shared among all of them (unlike voice calls and all non-GPRS data)... this is why in incredibly busy network regions (such as an after party at WWDC) it is difficult to even get text messages to go through: this is actually a limited resource that can easily be exhausted.