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I know a more experienced engineer. He told me when engineers first invented texting to communicate with each other it's essentially free for telecom companies

I know a more experienced engineer. He told me when engineers first invented texting to communicate with each other it's essentially free for telecom companies so yes we Americans are overpaying like crazy for texting.

sjtgraham 12y ago
> essentially free The marginal cost per message is essentially free. The costs of building, operating and maintaining telco infrastructure are unfortunately not.