Comments on: NEWSFLASH: Text messaging is a huge rip off http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/29/newsflash-text-messaging-is-a-huge-rip-off/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:00:16 -0500 hourly 1 By: Konrad Roeder http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/29/newsflash-text-messaging-is-a-huge-rip-off/comment-page-1/#comment-581144 Konrad Roeder Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:36:40 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/29/newsflash-text-messaging-is-a-huge-rip-off/#comment-581144 It takes a lot of signaling messages to send a single SMS message to the handset. Those messages are used to set-up a connection. Games, pictures (backgrounds), ringtones and music files are sent using MMS. MMS messages include singaling setup to establish the connection, but then pass a much larger payload of data. You will find that MMS messages are billed using a different measure than the SMS text-only messages. So I find the "study" above to be mostly incorrect. It takes a lot of signaling messages to send a single SMS message to the handset. Those messages are used to set-up a connection.

Games, pictures (backgrounds), ringtones and music files are sent using MMS. MMS messages include singaling setup to establish the connection, but then pass a much larger payload of data.

You will find that MMS messages are billed using a different measure than the SMS text-only messages. So I find the “study” above to be mostly incorrect.

]]> By: griffon http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/29/newsflash-text-messaging-is-a-huge-rip-off/comment-page-1/#comment-578874 griffon Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:47:32 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/29/newsflash-text-messaging-is-a-huge-rip-off/#comment-578874 The amount of hand shake data it takes to ring your for phone to could feed your every SMS for a month. The amount of hand shake data it takes to ring your for phone to could feed your every SMS for a month.

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