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As far as I could understand, North American carriers charged through the nose for mobile data for the longest time, but usually bundled SMS with some plans in some form, be it a set number of messages, or unlimited nights/weekends (oof, I don’t feel younger typing that one out). In most of the rest of the world, data became cheaper faster, but SMS was/is still expensive. This, combined with iPhone’s popularity in NA making people use iMessage, led to a lot of people just sticking to the defaults and use SMS on one side of the Atlantic, while the rest used WhatsApp or similar.

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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Pretty much, it was still expensive at though. I got my first cellphone in 1999 with Fido. Probably paid something like 50$ month and that came with like 100 texts messages.

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- folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My first non-prepaid plan must have been around 2006-2007, with a slide phone and the very minimum plan I could get which was, IIRC, 50 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and exactly zero text messages included, no caller ID nor voicemail 😂 First time I had a data plan was in late 2011, when I got my first smartphone (Galaxy SII), and that was definitely less than 1GB/month…
  
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  - wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If you think you’re old, I start with a Nokia 5110…
    
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    folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh I don’t think I’m particularly old, statistically speaking I’ve got about the same amount or a bit more left to go… We just all have those moments that make you realize time flies, don’t we?
    
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Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I quit with WhatsApp when Meta acquired it.

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