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?

  • @knexcar
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    12 months ago

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

    • Dandroid
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      12 months ago

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