You had to pay to receive? wtf.gif
So some rando could ruin you by sending a bazillion SMS messages?
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AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 6 months agoMessages went from $.05, to $.10, to $.20 to send and receive. That was in the span of three years. All of the companies said it wasn’t collision. They just happened to arrive upon massive increases separately.
If I recall, one of the CEOs said “We’re raising the prices to save customers money. This way they’ll be an unlimited plan”
The telcos should have been broken up then. Instead we’ve seen even more mergers.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
skulblaka@startrek.website 6 months ago
You could ignore them and not recieve. But then you’ve got a billion pending messages that you don’t know the content of.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The messages weren’t pushed to you? You got a notification and then had to request the actual message? That would be even more stupid, as it’s using twice the bandwidth.
skulblaka@startrek.website 6 months ago
That’s how it worked on my old phone, you got a message notification but it cost you to actually read it. No clue if they sent the message content before the paywall or if it pulled it down afterward.
But it also meant you could use your phone basically as a beeper without paying for texts. Just see who sent you a message, ignore the actual message and call them.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I know you meant collusion, but in case anyone else didn’t, it’s not collision.
Maeve@kbin.social 6 months ago
Where is this?
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This was certainly in the US at one point. I remember having 500 per month, which was an absolute joke for 16 year old me with a girlfriend the next town over, and paying 25 send and 5 receive afterwards. Old cell plans were absolute trash.
Maeve@kbin.social 6 months ago
Jesus. I remember my first cell was $35/month, 350 minutes of talk, no data and unlimited texts, before smart phones. On contact.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I remember when they started rolling out data plans and they were hefty and the Internet on phones was useless. Then GPS on your phone was an add-on, also hefty. So it’s definitely improved.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Probably trying to get the last juice to squeeze as more and more traffic moves to web based messaging
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They fucked themselves. It became more worthwhile to just use data.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And who provides the data?
knexcar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
WiFi?
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m not sure who in this chain is joking, lol
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
WiFi isn’t free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.