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by brg1007 4292 days ago
Not really. 1 SMS = Request URL, so depending how many URLs do you request results the bill.
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cyounkins 4292 days ago
It appears the HTML of the requested page is returned to the requesting phone via SMS, which could be many many messages if you are loading say, a wikipedia page.
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sanswork 4292 days ago
Most people in the world don't pay for receiving SMS messages. I think that is limited to the US and Canada and becoming less common even there.
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voxic11 4292 days ago
Well luckily most people don't have to pay for receiving sms messages.
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brg1007 4292 days ago
I know that in the past in US and Canada carriers billed incoming SMS, but I thought that alongside with the new age of messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage they dropped this nonsense. In Europe even when in Roaming there is no cost for incoming SMS.
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