Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?

• Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Please tell me you’re joking…

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, I suppose I could actually pay attention to your username.

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    • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep Northern Ireland is not a US state thankfully 🤪

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively. You are sure? Never experienced it that way.
  After all, SMS is originally an European cellular standard and has been huge thing there for decades.

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s usually in the context of there not being a single app alternative (like WhatsApp or that one China uses) which took off before SMS became unlimited here, so SMS is the default if you want to exchange text messages with someone or if a company does.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that makes some sense then!
      I remember SMS still being a hot topic in the US from the (for me as an outsider) amusing blue(?) and green(?) text message bubble discussions.

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