Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| Deeply flawed, dishonest, and inflated The problem with the hypothetical used is they are comparing apples to oranges for example for cent article to inflate the cost.
"Carriers limit the number of characters that can be transmitted in a text message to 160 characters. Each character is about 7 bits, which works out to a maximum of about 140 bytes of data per text message. This is peanuts compared with the size of sending or receiving an e-mail or downloading an MP3 song over a cellular network.
One blogger has done the math. If the same pricing was applied on a per-byte basis to downloading one 4MB song it would cost the user almost $6,000 to download a single song via SMS texting."
One can not compare downloading an 140 byte SMS message to that of a 4MB MP3 since one is limited to 140 byte per SMS text, it will take 29,959 separate messages to download a 4MB file. another way to look at the flaw I would need to send 3.4 messages a hour 24/7 for a year just to reach the 4MB mark. |
