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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by kcb on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:15PM (#33183382)
US carries haven't charged per message in like a decade.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:39PM (#33183804)
No but when RCS was invented they still did because they hadn't lost the war with messaging apps yet.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by dalyons on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:58PM (#33186262)
That’s only sort of true. Consumers don’t pay directly, but the carriers charge each other for them, and they still make a lot off people injecting sms into the system (think twilio, marketing, 2fa, application generated traffic). RCS was aimed (and priced) to try and make lots of money off a2p
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