That was part of the plan. They could sell your number to advertisers, then charge you for receiving ads from them! Double the profit with zero investment!
Due to RF constraints, there always will only be like 3 or 4 MNOs.
Hell, in ideal situation, I think a single carrier could be far better. Every carrier is going to have some unused bandwidth, and all of it could be added up.
Possibly we’d be doing quite well even with sub-1GHz. Let’s say on 4G instead of one 10MHz channel in 800MHz, you’d do 2x20MHz for a total of 40MHz. Now, of course, everyone would be using that, but you’d have far less wasted bandwidth, because anyone would be able to use it too.
Unfortunately, that could just end up with the side effect of much larger websites. Same as with increased storage sizes and computation power the efficiency of programs just went down.
It helps to think before hitting Send.
God, I hate those people who send off half a text, then a correction, then the other half, all within 5 seconds.
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does that happen to yoi?
after i get a text from her i wait a couple minutes in case there are any more en route lol
my mom does that and it’s so annoying
lol true
It was pretty bad back then when you would get charged for receiving all of those too.
Receiving… texts? How can you even be charged for that when you can’t affect what you receive?
Fuck yea freedom isn’t free 🇺🇸
Crazy, right? But the technology was brand new, and they got to make up the rules for a while.
That was part of the plan. They could sell your number to advertisers, then charge you for receiving ads from them! Double the profit with zero investment!
Its legal and there was an effective oligopoly at the time
Due to RF constraints, there always will only be like 3 or 4 MNOs.
Hell, in ideal situation, I think a single carrier could be far better. Every carrier is going to have some unused bandwidth, and all of it could be added up.
Possibly we’d be doing quite well even with sub-1GHz. Let’s say on 4G instead of one 10MHz channel in 800MHz, you’d do 2x20MHz for a total of 40MHz. Now, of course, everyone would be using that, but you’d have far less wasted bandwidth, because anyone would be able to use it too.
Unfortunately, that could just end up with the side effect of much larger websites. Same as with increased storage sizes and computation power the efficiency of programs just went down.
Many services still have that warning too, so I can only assume there are still people getting charged per text received, including junk.
Sorry, I don’t remember in which places enter adds newline or just sends the message.
I treat
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Not to think before I comment.
I love your username
Hah, it does seem like some people use their chats as drafts for their thoughts.
One concise message per issue is best. Separate messages are ok when starting a new topic.