Just a Few Reasons Why Text Messages Cost So Much

December 31, 2008 at 1:30 pm PT

Tagged with: comic, frontpage, Geek Culture, Joy of Tech, Nitrozac, Nitrozac and Snaggy, Snaggy, text messages

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Robert Kingsley

Funny stuff as long as you realize that in reality, text messages are NOT free for telecoms. There is a significant network infrastructure that must be installed, supported, and connected to support the ‘free text messages’.
I am not saying that the network costs and other costs equal what telecoms charge. I am just saying that it is silly to think it is FREE for telecoms.

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