Any revenue received by the provider on incremental text message usage is nearly pure profit,” the commentary argues. “To put these profits in perspective: considering how little data is transferred in an SMS message, at 20 cents per message, consumers pay the equivalent of almost $1,500 per megabyte of data transferred, a rate over seventeen times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
—Matthew Lasar, writing for Ars Technica
Seriously. With (much) cheaper data and twitter, can we please stop texting? And how about an app that will push DMs to phones?
