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To lay the cables required a huge amount of capital, to make that feasible its required financial engineering. That translates to high operating expenses.
by KaiserPro 1y ago
To lay the cables required a huge amount of capital, to make that feasible its required financial engineering. That translates to high operating expenses.
- AlotOfReading 1y agoSMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower, which was being paid for by existing phone bills. The only significant expenses involved transiting between networks. That was a separate surcharge in the early days.
- ssk42 1y agoUsed to be? What changed?
- KaiserPro 1y ago> SMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower for GSM? not really, Yes SMS was sent at a lower priority than voice, so if there is a lot of voice traffic, SMSs wouldn't be delivered as quickly. But, to my original point, do you think the towers were free? Thats the point, it took a shittone of captial to make the network. Did the mobile networks make a lot of cash? also yes. But they also took on huge amounts of debt and went bust.