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?

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    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.