http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22645049 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:01 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22668763 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22668763 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22648417 said by jfmezei:

And since they charge for each SMS, there is accounting and probably logging involved which requires the distributed nodes to send accounting information to some central accounting system.
Which is probably the largest cost in providing SMS service. :)
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with every mistake we must surely be learning]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22648417 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22648000
the large north american mobile networks don't set prices according to costs, they set prices according to what the market will bear. If people are willing to pay $0.10 per SMS, then they wil charge $0.10 even if it costs them just a fraction of a penny to provide.

In fairness though, one needs to realise that SMS does require some hefty computing and storage. Remember that SMS is store and forward and some system will store your system until the destination handset is turned on, at which point it needs to route the message via appropriate systems to finally reach the antenna that serves that handset. And since they charge for each SMS, there is accounting and probably logging involved which requires the distributed nodes to send accounting information to some central accounting system.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Wow-22648000 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Wow-22645049 --
Does Microsoft mean small and squishy?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Wow-22645049 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:08:25 EDT