Comments on: How Come SMS’s Cost So Much?

By: dude

dude — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:07:40 +0000

Nothing to do with your FCC. SMSs are ludicrously overpriced in most western countries, simply because the companies can get away with it. They have a duty to rape as much cash out of consumers as they can and hand it to their shareholders. Im in Australia and one SMS costs around 25c to send on most carriers, but then maybe you dont consider us to be a “true capitalist market” either? There is a perceived value in the SMS system and consumers are willing to pay it.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:27:31 +0000

“Capatalism at its finest?” Ian, I have to disagree wholeheartedly. I think this is the result of the FCC meddling with airwaves and locking would-be competitors out of the cellular business. This kind of thing doesn’t happen in true capitalist markets.

By: Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:04:42 +0000

Interesting. I have a new phone and haven’t figured out how to SMS yet. Also my company pays the bill, so no dramas. With so many capped plans, it shouldn’t really matter much how much an SMS costs. Overall, mobile costs, especially all the 3G rip off stuff is where the profits must be made.

By: Scott Easterday

Scott Easterday — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:22:00 +0000

I have a PDA phone with unlimited Internet Usage. I was looking at my bill the other day and I noticed i use about 150MB of data per month and about 1000 txt msgs. Using about 140KB. Why would I pay $20 for unlimited text messaging argh.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:03:09 +0000

Capitalism at its finest.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:16:42 +0000

Ahh, fair enough :) I just noticed that Google Reader shows it correctly.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:10:29 +0000

It is actually block quoted, in the code. We have to update our style sheet.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:05:24 +0000

You should probably block quote this post (that is, the large part of it that is a quote). As well as make some note of the fact that there is stuff quoted in the quote.