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No Stupid [email protected] • 8 months ago

Why are SMS messages so expensive?

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Why are SMS messages so expensive?

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No Stupid [email protected] • 8 months ago

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?

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What are you paying for SMS? I pay 6 euro a month for unlimited sms and calls and 2 GB data. 50+ mobiel is my provider. Now they offer my plan with the first year for 2,5 euro. Dirt cheap.
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  Around 0,03 euro per SMS - not huge, but when someone contacts you via SMS and you have to communicate this way, money disappear quickly.
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    What country?
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      Russia
      
      Generally a destination with cheap mobile communications. But unlimited SMS messages are not universally featured.
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        lol russian
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  Yeah, I drop the equivalent of 16€ and I get 60GB data and unlimited calls and SMS with my Danish provider. Having to pay for SMS is purely corporate greed.
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    What about sending sms to other countries though? I have free domestic sms but pay like 0.20€ for international (within EU).
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      I pay 0,07€ international, vice versa is free roaming.

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