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jarin on Feb 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why text messages are limited to 160 characters

Slightly off-topic, but it's a little mind-boggling that they charge 10 cents per message for something that rides on control signals and gets the lowest priority on the network.

muriithi on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

Here in Kenya we pay between Kshs 1-2 per message to send.

Receiving is free.

Considering that the exchange rate is Kshs 80 to 1$ a message is about 1.25 to 2.50 cents.

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