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There weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever, Hah. Someone wasn't alive for the 90s.
by b40d-48b2-979e 5mo ago
There weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever,
Hah. Someone wasn't alive for the 90s.
- DANmode 5mo agoSomeone didn’t read all of the words ^_^ Infrastructure costs were marginal, near 0, because SMS was just 140 bytes of text stuffed into already-occurring network traffic between phone<->telco.
- chickensong 5mo agoI did some work with Verizon and an IoT customer was asking about SMS pricing and the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agothe VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS. Didn't stop them from charging $0.10 per text message in the 2000s and earning a fortune.
- chickensong 5mo agoYep, bastards!
- DANmode 5mo agoand that’s only because an accountant demanded a cost of goods sold! Continuing that behavior until everybody’s grandma had iMessage, is a large portion of why I don’t trust a telco! (Not building out the full range of rural etc network they promised to, while cashing all of the government subsidies, struck me wrong as well.)