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I 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.
by chickensong 5mo ago
I 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.)