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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by jandrese on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:22AM (#15417479)
SMS had the dubious distinction of being the most expensive way to send data outside of non-commercial satellite and exotic military technologies. I can remember fees of $.35 for 160 7-bit characters worth of data, using bandwidth that was otherwise just going to waste. Carriers got so greedy with SMS.
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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by chatmasta on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:07PM (#15419970)
That comes to about $2.1 million per gigabyte. But it's also a bit of an unfair comparison since one user consumes far less bandwidth using SMS vs general data.
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