Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?
Dave@lemmy.nz 4 days agoThis is my understanding. WhatsApp took off at a time and in places where SMS was expensive. Because WhatsApp used data, they could keep data usage low and allow people to message almost for free.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
Nevermind past tense, my current phone plan still has me pay for SMS separately (IIRC I get 100 free SMS, after that it’s 9 cent/SMS).
Dave@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Wow, after the move to messaging apps pretty much any general phone plan here has free unlimited SMS, the different plans are about the data included. Even the $8NZD ($4.60USD) per month 150MB data plan comes with unlimited SMS.