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?

  • phoneymouse
    165 months ago
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    They fucked themselves. It became more worthwhile to just use data.

        • otp
          55 months ago
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          I’m not sure who in this chain is joking, lol

        • Dandroid
          25 months ago
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          WiFi isn’t free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.

          • knexcarEnglish
            15 months ago
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            But with WiFi, you don’t have to pay extra for more data usage.

            • Dandroid
              15 months ago
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              That depends. Where I used to live, Comcast had a monopoly and a data cap.