Crusade Against The Cost Of SMS Text Messaging

Why do mobile phone SMS text messages cost so much to send per text?

SMS text messages can't possibly cost the mobile phone companies 10p or even 20p each!!

Origins of SMS

Way back then I was one of the first ever public users of the GSM network and deep inside my Nokia menus I found an arcane capability to send text message to other mobile phone users. I tested it by sending an SMS text to myself and decreed that it was just too difficult to enter a message using just the digit keys and it would never catch on.

The True Costs

The mobile phone companies must have also thought it would never catch on because they hardly advertised the service at that time or did anything to make the service easier to use.

Even the actual text message is sent using spare capacity in the mobile phone control network which is why the text message length is restricted to 160 characters. Thus SMS texts should be completely free because they don't cost the mobile phone companies anything.

The truth is that the mobile phone companies are desperate to charge as much as they can for SMS texts and they rue the day that it is was first possible to send an email for free.

My Crusade

My crusade is to reduce the costs to the public of SMS Text messages to as little as possible and for free if possible.

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