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?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    28 months ago

    What about sending sms to other countries though? I have free domestic sms but pay like 0.20€ for international (within EU).