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I guess this only works if you have a cell phone plan with unlimited SMS. Otherwise you're looking at a phone bill of thousands of dollars!
by digitalcreate 12y ago
I guess this only works if you have a cell phone plan with unlimited SMS. Otherwise you're looking at a phone bill of thousands of dollars!
- brg1007 12y agoNot really. 1 SMS = Request URL, so depending how many URLs do you request results the bill.
- cyounkins 12y agoIt appears the HTML of the requested page is returned to the requesting phone via SMS, which could be many many messages if you are loading say, a wikipedia page.
- sanswork 12y agoMost people in the world don't pay for receiving SMS messages. I think that is limited to the US and Canada and becoming less common even there.
- voxic11 12y agoWell luckily most people don't have to pay for receiving sms messages.
- brg1007 12y agoI know that in the past in US and Canada carriers billed incoming SMS, but I thought that alongside with the new age of messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage they dropped this nonsense. In Europe even when in Roaming there is no cost for incoming SMS.
- cbhl 12y agoIn what countries do carriers charge for receiving messages? I know there are a few in Canada, but what else is there?
- mikeash 12y agoIt's standard practice in the US if you don't have a texting plan, or if you exceed your limit. Sending and receiving both count equally.
- joshmlewis 12y agoOn most plans offered in the US nowadays texting is included. All of the T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Straight Talk, Republic, etc plans have unlimited texting included.
- mikeash 12y agoThat's pretty recent, though, and a lot of people are still on older plans. Still, it's good they're finally gaining some sanity there.