I found this story in one of my SlashDot newsletters today.
I don’t send many texts, maybe it’s age!!! But it forms a huge percentage of many of the UK mobile phone companies revenues.
So what is the real cost of the sending a text compared to say, downloading via your ISP, sending an email or even using the normal post to send a letter?
If these figures are to be believed, then no wonder so much profit is being made by the likes of Vodafone, Orange, 3 etc.
The article is based on recent USA AT&T data, but the principal would be the same for the UK I would think. I’ll have to see if I can find out some of the background info from a UK point of view and post it back here, unless anyone else beats me to it.
Here’s the main article at A Gthing Science Project
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