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by marcus_holmes
4460 days ago
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I just want to point out that our current internet is not http-based. It's ip-based. The World Wide Web is http-based but that's not the same as the Internet. This would be nit-picking, except it's not. There is a global unified standard for communication. It's called the Internet Protocol (ip for short). If we moved SMS messages off SMS and onto ip we have WhatsApp (or any other superficially similar service). If you want to stop using SMS because it doesn't work over ip, then there are a few dozen messaging apps that will run on your phone and allow you to send and receive messages over ip. This, after all, was the driver behind WhatsApp's growth: the data bandwidth involved in sending a message is massively cheaper than SMS charges for the same message. A single google search revealed a whole page allowing you to send and receive SMS messages from iPad or desktop if that's the problem. So, basically, as far as I can see it's not the networks preventing this. It's the users. Stop sending SMS messages and urge all your friends to move to any one of a dozen non-SMS message formats and you're done. |
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