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Text messaging 12,000 times more expensive than email!

by Bob Crabtree on 28 June 2006, 10:07

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It might be a case of stating the bleeding obvious - and you might care to argue with the maths - but Glynn Byrd's blog highlights the massive cost of text messaging compared to email.

For the mathematically minded, in units of pence per byte: SMS = (12/160) = 0.075 p/B, Broadband (2699/40000000000)=0.00000675 p/B, i.e. sending an SMS is nearly 12000 times more expensive than sending an email message using your broadband connection. [Based on a 160byte text message costing 12 pence, or 40GB of data on BT Broadband costing £26.99 per month.]

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It's actually more. SMS characters are compressed (at least in the UK) down to 7bits so a 160 character SMS is actually only 120 bytes in length!
my dads name is paul stevens….wierd….

anyway on topic :)