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That's some pretty bad math. That analysis uses the average characters/message for SMS, but uses the maximum characters/letter for postal delivery. The average is probably less than a page.

It also double-counts SMS costs (for sending and for receiving), but doesn't double-count the ISP bandwidth costs.

Still, I agree with its conclusion: there's no good reason for texts to cost so much.



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