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There are another aspects that SMS is bad at: - Crossing a border with SMS is rather expensive. Only recently that T-mobile finally dropping 35 cents charge fo
by unsignedint 13y ago
There are another aspects that SMS is bad at:
- Crossing a border with SMS is rather expensive. Only recently that T-mobile finally dropping 35 cents charge for international SMSes, not sure about others...
- UTF-8 implementation sucked until recently. I think it is still unpredictable if it cross carrier.
- Group SMS is non-existant, although MMS can handles it. (and if you have someone uses sonething like Google Voice, forget group messaging... although it is probably Google Voice who would deserve some blames.) But there is no way to get receipients' capabilities.
- pjmlp 13y agoWhat?! In Europe we have pre-paid packages with flat rate SMS.
- unsignedint 13y agoIt's similar, if it's domestic SMS. (In fact, a lot of plans no longer offer "flat rate SMS" rather they are built into now ubiquitous "unlimited" plans. Other than some carriers offering extra international SMS options, it's certainly not is a standard. I am not very sure about how it really works in Europe, but I have feeling that EU countries have more comprehensive arrangements for calling/texting/roaming across their borders, or at least I wouldn't be too surprising even if so.
- pjmlp 13y agoYes, in Germany we do have "EU flatrate", a set of "favorite countries" or a big package like 500 SMS for foreign numbers. The option depends per operator.