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chickensongyesterday at 8:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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b40d-48b2-979eyesterday at 9:16 PM

    the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.
Didn't stop them from charging $0.10 per text message in the 2000s and earning a fortune.
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DANmodeyesterday at 11:29 PM

and that’s only because an accountant demanded a cost of goods sold!

Continuing that behavior until everybody’s grandma had iMessage, is a large portion of why I don’t trust a telco!

(Not building out the full range of rural etc network they promised to, while cashing all of the government subsidies, struck me wrong as well.)