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The cost of a text!

woolymammoth · 2007-03-28 11:47:41

Inspired by this site along with many other threads here on the subject of text message prices, i was wondering what the actual markup is on text messages compared to the networks other data services. so, taking meteor as my example; a 160 character message = 160 x 7 bits = 140 bytes at 9c per text, thats ~66c per kB…

28-03-2007 11:47am

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Inspired by this site along with many other threads here on the subject of text message prices, i was wondering what the actual markup is on text messages compared to the networks other data services. so, taking meteor as my example;

a 160 character message = 160 x 7 bits = 140 bytes

at 9c per text, thats ~66c per kB

compare that with 2c per kB for WAP, its a 3200% increase.

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#2 28-03-2007 12:48pm

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A text message isnt sent in the same way as bytes are used in Data services like WAP etc, so you cant really compare them in markup.

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#3 28-03-2007 2:41pm

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