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Why are SMS messages so expensive? (self.nostupidquestions)
submitted 2 months ago by Allero to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?

If I get it right, an SMS message is just a short string of data, no different from a message we send in a messenger. If so, then what makes them so expensive? If we'd take Internet plans and consider how much data an SMS takes, we should pay tiny fraction of a cent for each message; why doesn't that happen?

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They fucked themselves. It became more worthwhile to just use data.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago
[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure who in this chain is joking, lol

[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

WiFi isn't free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.

[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But with WiFi, you don’t have to pay extra for more data usage.

[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

That depends. Where I used to live, Comcast had a monopoly and a data cap.

this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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