[ender341341]

Can I ask where?

I'm in the US and any of the big carriers offer unlimited texting as a baseline, and we have pretty crappy carriers compared to a lot of the world.

[MinorTom]

In Germany the standard price for an SMS is 9 cent, of which somewhere around 2-3 cents are paid to the recipient's carrier. Unlimited plans are common, but only because nobody texts anymore (same applies for phone calls).

[kalleboo]

It costs me around 3 cents to send a domestic SMS and 40 cents to send an international one, on an unlimited data 5G plan in Japan.

That said, I don't care, since I literally can not remember the last time I sent an SMS. It must have been years ago.

[ender341341]

That makes sense, I guess I forgot that lots of the world effectively moved on from SMS to other messaging/apps.

[TeMPOraL]

Maybe on prepaid plans? Been a while since I've heard of SMS costing anything on subscription plan, outside of roaming charges. Mobile Internet effectively cannibalized that income stream for the phone companies.

[eitau_1]

yea, it's prepaid in Poland. But to be fair, I pay $12 a year for 50GB of data and don't call/text much