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Thread ID: 58118 2005-05-22 07:54:00 $10 to send 500 txts - equivalent to a single email vapo (5203) PC World Chat
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357402 2005-05-22 11:38:00 Several years ago I saw a married couple with two networked computers located in the same room sending each other messages over the intranet.
Ha! That's nothing. I recently posted a picture of my computer room - Mrs A93 & I sit about 5 feet apart and we still send eachother e-mails! Some might say 'mad' but I say *romantic*.
....rrrrrrrrrrr....
:D 		andrew93 (249)
357403 2005-05-22 12:34:00 Ok I see your point, but how about we compare it to T3G prices at $8 for a MB of data (www.telecom.co.nz). That's on the same network, no? Still rediculous pricing but anyway:

$10 at the moment gets you 500 texts which is about 80 KB~
$8 on T3G gets you 1024 KB of data

So if we applied the T3G prices to sending text messages it should only cost:

0.12207 of a cent to send a single text message, not 20cents
61.03515 cents to send 500 texts, not $10

Please correct me if the calculations are wrong.

Not going to bother checking them, but this is where the first part of my response kicks in.

It is also based on what the market will stand, as is everything you buy.

The pricing probably also encourages buying data in bulk. Just as everything else is priced.

There is nothing stopping you collecting all the txt messages from your clients, building a platform to convert them to bulk data that is skillfully able to regenerate into individual messages to send to the recipients. Over your own nationwide (and world connected) network. Should only cost a few 100 million, but you do need to renew it every few years to keep up with technology.

Oh wait ... Telecom and Vodafone have already done that .. 		godfather (25)
357404 2005-05-22 22:16:00 Ha! That's nothing. I recently posted a picture of my computer room - Mrs A93 & I sit about 5 feet apart and we still send eachother e-mails! The other computer is just around the corner, about two to three metres from this one with the user visible if I lean over but I regularly chat with both my children via MSN. Sometimes I even get invited into group chats with them and their friends. :eek:

The really weird thing is that they tell me all sorts of things via Chat that they won't mention face to face. Sometimes I wonder if they have forgotten who they are talking to. :D 		FoxyMX (5)
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