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RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months agoI considered setting up a raspberry pi with a 4g hat because of that.
Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months agoI considered setting up a raspberry pi with a 4g hat because of that.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
In the wild west days of the internet we used to connect consumer CDMA phones straight to our servers. You’d walk around your COLO and peak in racks of crazy expensive, rack mounted hardware with the world’s cheapest flip phone sitting on top.
The telcos caught wind and started terminating accounts. It was a great way to have a server tell you it fell off the network.