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Comment Re:Ads (Score 1) 65

by ashamanq on Friday April 11, 2008 @10:18AM (#23035958) Attached to: Emergency Alerts Via Text Messaging

I know I would... do you know how much delicious food they have there?

The True Cost of SMS Messages 583

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @04:05AM from the call-it-$24K-a-song dept.

nilbog writes "What's the actual cost of sending SMS messages? This article does the math and concludes that, for example, sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS. Why has the cost of bandwidth, infrastructure, and technology in general plummeted while the price of SMS messages have risen so egregiously? How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission?"

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