http://www.wekadesign.co.nz web apps that solve problems Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:08:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.wekadesign.co.nz/2009/01/01/think-txt-messages-are-cheap-think-again/ http://www.wekadesign.co.nz/2009/01/01/think-txt-messages-are-cheap-think-again/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:44 +0000 Mike McMurray http://www.wekadesign.co.nz/blog/?p=47 The NYTimes has an interesting article about the cost of txt messages that I’m sure most of us have suspected in the past.
Not only is it extremely cheap for a mobile provider to run a txt message service, the data uses a portion of the transmission that gets sent anyway.
A scientist at the University of Leicester recently published some calculations that show txt messaging is a number of times more expensive than sending data to the Hubble space telescope.
Anyone smell a price-fixing investigation?

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