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Re:Why AT&T Killed Google Voice by a-priori on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @05:19AM (#772392)
They are essentially free, because the carriers provide no delivery guarantees for SMS messages. That is, if the channel is busy with other signalling traffic, then SMS messages will be silently dropped.
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Re:Why AT&T Killed Google Voice by dkersten on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @08:46AM (#772590)
The TCAP transaction would be retried approx. ten minutes later, up to three times (on the networks I've seen, anyway).
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