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?
Not in the US. Smartphones killed that shit.
But there was a time where people did the math, and SMS was more expensive than what it costs NASA to get data from the Hubble.