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Post #381,480 by jake123 10/1/13 1:09:57 PM Reply	There are people who do here and yeah, it's totally uncool. If you're on PAYG, you pay for incoming texts, or you pop up ten bucks a month for a texting plan. Our regulatory agency on the telecoms here (the CRTC) used to be decent, but nowadays it's a prime example of regulatory capture in Canada: there's a revolving door between it and the executive level people in the telecoms.
Post #381,481 by drook 10/1/13 1:14:09 PM Reply	Refresh my memory The reason texts are 140 characters is that's the amount of bandwidth available in the network ping, so it's essentially free (from a bandwidth perspective) for the telcos, right? -- Drew
Post #381,482 by jake123 10/1/13 1:18:13 PM Reply	No SMS originated as a messaging protocol to carry debugging messages from devices that were being remotely debugged to make sure they worked properly on the cell network. It's a fixed length packet, with a 140 byte payload. You can get 160 characters in it when you use a 7bit char set specifically designed to work with SMS. The engineers working on the devices wrote a little thing into the firmwares to be able to compose messages and send them to other devices, probably so they could troll each other, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Lumia 1020 ordered. - (pwhysall) - (27) - Sept. 17, 2013, 04:35:27 AM EDT

Who cares about 41 MP? - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2013, 09:26:06 AM EDT

I do. - (pwhysall) - Sept. 17, 2013, 12:08:21 PM EDT

Re: Lumia 1020 ordered. - (Bman) - (17) - Sept. 17, 2013, 09:46:32 AM EDT

Re: Lumia 1020 ordered. - (pwhysall) - (16) - Sept. 17, 2013, 12:10:30 PM EDT

But you're can't join the collective that way! -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 17, 2013, 12:46:11 PM EDT

I has it. - (pwhysall) - (14) - Sept. 27, 2013, 04:40:38 AM EDT

we have an unlimited data plan as well - (boxley) - (13) - Sept. 28, 2013, 07:12:44 PM EDT

OK, I'm confused - (hnick) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2013, 10:08:08 AM EDT

Neither - (drook) - Sept. 29, 2013, 10:57:31 AM EDT

Interesting. - (pwhysall) - (10) - Sept. 30, 2013, 03:13:05 AM EDT

yes it counts, yes it sucks glad phones are tax deductable -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 30, 2013, 09:03:00 PM EDT

Ya think it's bad for them - (jake123) - (8) - Oct. 1, 2013, 07:09:18 AM EDT

Nice... - (folkert) - (7) - Oct. 1, 2013, 09:03:18 AM EDT

Wait, what? - (pwhysall) - (6) - Oct. 1, 2013, 10:28:44 AM EDT

Yep, I used to ... - (folkert) - Oct. 1, 2013, 10:59:49 AM EDT

Not any more, but ... - (drook) - Oct. 1, 2013, 11:10:27 AM EDT

There are people who do here - (jake123) - (2) - Oct. 1, 2013, 01:09:57 PM EDT

Refresh my memory - (drook) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2013, 01:14:09 PM EDT

No - (jake123) - Oct. 1, 2013, 01:18:13 PM EDT

It's what happened because the US was late to GSM. :-) - (static) - Oct. 2, 2013, 12:33:29 AM EDT

They've got great TV commercials here - (lincoln) - Sept. 27, 2013, 01:37:02 PM EDT

Quick example or two - (pwhysall) - (5) - Sept. 29, 2013, 03:38:57 PM EDT

322 kB jpeg. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 29, 2013, 03:57:45 PM EDT

Heh - (pwhysall) - (2) - Sept. 30, 2013, 01:26:25 AM EDT

Thanks. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 30, 2013, 07:07:46 AM EDT

Re: Thanks. - (pwhysall) - Sept. 30, 2013, 07:24:02 AM EDT

More extensive blathering about the camera on G+ - (pwhysall) - Oct. 2, 2013, 01:59:56 AM EDT

It's a Berkeley DB file - neat! I love retro.
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