Factaroni
It doesnt cost phone companies a penny for you to send a text its a long process but here we go.

every mobile phone sends a signal out 1500 a second to connec tto the nearest signal tower so when you send a text it gets put into one of the 1500 signals thats being sent so they don;t have to pay for opening up a channel for you to communicate because theres a permanent one open for signalling.

Soooooo they still charge 12p when they shouldnt't!
The Bastards
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:12, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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Why shouldn't they? It mightn't cost anything to send a particular text, but you aren't paying for that. You're paying for the service. Additionally, the infrastructure has to be paid for somehow...

I hope for your sake that you never start a business. It'd be bust within days if you only ever sold things at cost.

And, yes, I am an unrepentant lefty.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:36, Reply)

there still cuntbags
they charge enough on the calls they alrealdy make 10 fold of what it costs so there just greedy cunts.

Ps. Im not really bothered about it cos i dont pay for and calls or texts it just that i had fuk all else to say.
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:39, Reply)

Point stands...
... If people are willing to pay price p - and they obviously are - it'd be daft not to expect service chargers to charge p, wouldn't it?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:59, Reply)

yep
obviously if it was me i would charge even more but as im not i might aswell bitch about it.
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:02, Reply)

Profit
They have to pay for infrastructure, I don't know who owns all the masts. Is it like railtrack, where one company owns the infrastructure, and Orange/Vodafone/3 et al all rent bandwidth?

Then there's all the shops, marketing and call-centres.

I wonder how much it costs to handle a phone-call, or a pic message, or video calling. That must use a fair bit of bandwidth.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:03, Reply)

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suprisingly not that much compared to the prices people pay. the main cost to the companies is the bandwidth for video calls and goin on the internet but its still worth payin to download a bit of porno on your phone
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:10, Reply)

Texts
Though a statistic on the ITN site says that in Britan alone, 52 billion texts were sent in 2007. A bit of a convenient number, but still an awful lot of 12 pences.

On New Year's Day 2007, 214 million messages were sent.

Also, a lot of those will be in free minutes/text tariffs, of which a lot of people don't use.

Last month I used 36/150 mins and 315/750 texts. However, 3 do give me a £10/month loyalty discount.
and a free phone.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:15, Reply)

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ive got a contract with 750 mins and 100 texts that i dont use at all because i got a work phone with unlimited calls and txts so im gettin buggered for £25 a month beacuse i just renewed my 18 month contract
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:20, Reply)