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0 pointsKaiserPro8mo ago0 comments

To lay the cables required a huge amount of capital, to make that feasible its required financial engineering. That translates to high operating expenses.

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AlotOfReading8mo ago

SMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower, which was being paid for by existing phone bills. The only significant expenses involved transiting between networks. That was a separate surcharge in the early days.

KaiserProOP8mo ago

> SMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower

for GSM? not really, Yes SMS was sent at a lower priority than voice, so if there is a lot of voice traffic, SMSs wouldn't be delivered as quickly.

But, to my original point, do you think the towers were free?

Thats the point, it took a shittone of captial to make the network.

Did the mobile networks make a lot of cash? also yes. But they also took on huge amounts of debt and went bust.

ssk428mo ago

Used to be? What changed?

daveguy8mo ago

People started sending a lot more texts and making a lot fewer phone calls. And you can only piggyback so many text messages on the call packets.

KaiserProOP8mo ago

We don't use 2g GSM anymore.

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AlotOfReading8mo ago

KaiserProOP8mo ago

> SMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower

for GSM? not really, Yes SMS was sent at a lower priority than voice, so if there is a lot of voice traffic, SMSs wouldn't be delivered as quickly.

But, to my original point, do you think the towers were free?

Thats the point, it took a shittone of captial to make the network.

Did the mobile networks make a lot of cash? also yes. But they also took on huge amounts of debt and went bust.

ssk428mo ago

Used to be? What changed?

daveguy8mo ago

People started sending a lot more texts and making a lot fewer phone calls. And you can only piggyback so many text messages on the call packets.

KaiserProOP8mo ago

We don't use 2g GSM anymore.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse