On 2022-06-01 23:34, James Knott wrote:
On 2022-06-01 5:05 p.m., Patrick Shanahan wrote:
That's simply because your telecom company does it that way. Here, even with unlimited data, SMS are free, and MMS have a significant cost.
Whatever they do, is a commercial decision by the providers, not based on technical reasons. so you propose that due to the "commercial decision by the providers" where you subscribe, the rest of the world should not utilize sms/mms that are "free" or of very low cost to them.
your argument has merit but only where you subscribe, not here.
FWIW, I'm in Canada and have unlimited data, though throttled after 15 GB and "Unlimited Canada-wide Sent & Received Text, Picture & Video Messages". I also have unlimited Canada-wide calling.
These days, a lot of these services have such a low incremental cost there's no point in charging for them.
That's true, but... Example. I have now visitors from Canada that were sent text messages with tiny graphical content, so probably MMS, and they can't read them over here. SMS do arrive, MMS don't. Also, if they allow "data roaming", they are charged several dollars a day. Actually, some phones actually disable foreign roaming. I forgot the name of the involved provider, maybe Videotron :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)