[ApparentlyNothing]

Originally Posted by redbaron

except that now they're using better technology that costs them less to send texts. SMS used to use the left over side band of the frequencies used for voice calls which made them slower, more expensive, and less capacity. Modern phones use Edge/3g/etc to send texts over the data connection which makes it faster, and cheaper. The fact that they're sending 140 BYTES (0.13KB) if you send a full 160 character text, means that there's virtually no data compared to almost anything else you can download via a data connection on your phone. In the last ~1.5 years I've downloaded 3.5GB of data over 3g (not counting the data over wifi), even 1000 texts are a drop in the bucket.

The fact is, they lose money on the phones, and text messaging is a huge profit center. If you don't get a texting plan they charge you $0.10/ea even though they charge far less for actual data download per KB. If you buy a plan, you probably won't use near the amount you're paying for in which case they're probably making even more money than if you'd just paid the ten cents each.

Good point(s).

[doulos14]

Originally Posted by ApparentlyNothing

Good point(s).

Texting plans are definitely the thing, my family has a texting plan for the 4 of us to text unlimited for 30 a month. so the math would meant that were paying for 300 texts at .10 cents each. To say that my sister averages more than 3,000 a month obviously shows some gain, plus i probably text like a 1000 on average, not counting the occasional ones from my parents