Gizmodo: Text Messaging Charges Are A Ripoff
By Art Duszynski • Dec 29th, 2008 • Category: Found ElsewhereGizmodo shares a New York Times article about the real cost to phone companies of text messaging. Guess what? We’re paying for nothing.
We all know that text messaging is overpriced, but the NYT has pulled back the technological shroud to find out that the prices aren’t just bad, they’re practically extortionate.
The article goes into depth about how text messages are transmitted. In short, texts are unsurprisingly transmitted between towers over the main, wired network in the same way as cellular data, a portion of the journey that, considering the tiny amount of information in a 160-character text, costs very close to nothing.
Art Duszynski has been working on the web since 1998, and believes he's beginning to get the hang of it.
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