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December 29 2008

snej
19:19

What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com

“But text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. ... The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted. “‘Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,’ he said. ‘It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.’”
Tags: networks business