Yeah, and to think I hafe to pay a manditory $30 a month for data because I have a smartphone...
Walt On Jun 4, 2010 6:51 AM, "John Reames" <jwrea...@comcast.net> wrote: The real killing is on SMS services; the messages are carried in "Administrative" communications that continually occur between the phone and the tower. If there is a SMS to be sent, that is packed in, but if no message is to be sent, the space that would be used for messages is null-filled. Either way, the exact same amount of traffic/data is sent between the phone and the tower. That means that the cost to the carrier is exactly zero, at least as far as airtime is concerned. Meanwhile, the cost (per byte of data) that is passed onto the user of SMS services (at least those without a SMS addon pack) exceeds the cost of communicating with the Hubble Space Telescope. -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Jun 3, 2010, at 16:57, Tim C <bb...@crone.us> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Mitch Hal... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
