Someone didn’t read all of the words ^_^
Infrastructure costs were marginal, near 0,
because SMS was just 140 bytes of text stuffed into already-occurring network traffic
between phone<->telco.
I did some work with Verizon and an IoT customer was asking about SMS pricing and the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.
I did some work with Verizon and an IoT customer was asking about SMS pricing and the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.