Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?

If I get it right, an SMS message is just a short string of data, no different from a message we send in a messenger. If so, then what makes them so expensive? If we’d take Internet plans and consider how much data an SMS takes, we should pay tiny fraction of a cent for each message; why doesn’t that happen?

  • @phoneymouse
    16•9 months ago

    They fucked themselves. It became more worthwhile to just use data.

    • Billiam
      15•9 months ago

      And who provides the data?

        • Dandroid
          2•9 months ago

          WiFi isn’t free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.

          • @knexcarEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            But with WiFi, you don’t have to pay extra for more data usage.

            • Dandroid
              1•9 months ago

              That depends. Where I used to live, Comcast had a monopoly and a data cap.