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Re:Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data... by brg1007 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:13PM (#8304869)
Not really. 1 SMS = Request URL, so depending how many URLs do you request results the bill.
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Re:Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data... by cyounkins on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:18PM (#8304893)
It appears the HTML of the requested page is returned to the requesting phone via SMS, which could be many many messages if you are loading say, a wikipedia page.
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Re:Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data... by sanswork on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:20PM (#8304911)
Most people in the world don't pay for receiving SMS messages. I think that is limited to the US and Canada and becoming less common even there.
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Re:Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data... by voxic11 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:33PM (#8304987)
Well luckily most people don't have to pay for receiving sms messages.
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Re:Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data... by brg1007 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:58PM (#8305117)
I know that in the past in US and Canada carriers billed incoming SMS, but I thought that alongside with the new age of messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage they dropped this nonsense. In Europe even when in Roaming there is no cost for incoming SMS.
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