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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by elektronaut on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:28PM (#2736604)
If it's any indication on the informedness of the article:

  In reality, an MMS is about one million times more data than a text message.
The payload of an SMS is 140 bytes. The MMS specification does not specify a limit, but providers often cap it at 300kb. Which, of course, is about 2000 times more.

Now, if an MMS had about a million times more data than a text message, that would make each message about 140 megabytes.

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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by sorbus on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @10:00PM (#2736834)
The article seems to have updated. It now reads "In reality, an MMS or email is anywhere from a thousand to a hundred thousand times more data than an SMS." Given that the previous paragraph says that it's an "email containing photo(s) and/or video(s)", that seems perfectly reasonable (it puts the range between ~140 KB and ~14 MB).
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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by vacri on Thursday July 07, 2011 @01:19AM (#2737289)
Sending emails with 14MB attachments will make your sysadmin hunt you down with a pitchfork.
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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by nitrogen on Thursday July 07, 2011 @01:39AM (#2737327)
If that's the case, your sysadmin either needs to stop living in the past, or provide something more convenient than e-mail. Storage and LAN bandwidth are ridiculously cheap.
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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by bxc on Thursday July 07, 2011 @03:29AM (#2737605)
If we're making inappropriate price comparisons, that 14mb is half a cent of hard-drive space. A whole 3 characters worth of SMS!
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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by vacri on Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:36AM (#2737864)
Stop living in the past? Sure. The Cloud is the new fad, everyone's talking about it. We have our company email managed in the cloud. LAN bandwidth and local storage has nothing to do with the bottlenecks in this system.
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Re:What's in a SMS message? The real cost & just how badly y... by bdunbar on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:01AM (#2738421)
Storage and LAN bandwidth are ridiculously cheap.

This is true right up until you present a req for more disk drives for one's network attached storage.

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