• essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t want to undermine the lengthy and informed reply to this, but didn’t cellular network providers in the US charge for both sending and receiving SMS messages, solicited or otherwise?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      That was a little different. You weren’t paying a flat fee for “unlimited sms” at that time, you were paying a “per transaction” fee, where transaction could mean incoming or outgoing data.

      Still a load of bullshit though. SMS was always cheaper to send than even a minute of voice data. Text will always be smaller than audio.