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?

  • Maeve@kbin.social
    3·
    2 months ago

    Are you kidding? Everyone I know, even the kids, prefer sms. You can answer when and/or if you have time or feel like it

    • viking@infosec.pub
      4·
      2 months ago

      Nobody I know uses it, seriously. Every person is using whatsapp, and a handful privacy minded ones are on signal.

      Not sure I’m getting your point though, I can answer on every single message protocol whenever I have time or feel like it?

      • Maeve@kbin.social
        2·
        2 months ago

        I have a couple of friends and a family member on signal, the rest I text with, except for a neighbor who is too old to be great at it, and a blind friend. Oh and the elderly lady up the street. I guess my point is plenty of people use SMS, I guess it’s whatever people prefer in a given area. I loathe voice, except on rare occasion when I speak with my kid or a good friend of mine, halfway around the world, but that’s through signal, and it’s always great to voice/video chat with him and sometimes his friends or SO.