On: Is Throttling Smartphones Pointless? Study Suggests So

[matwood]

it quite litterally cost nothing

So all the tower and network construction and maintenance is free? I see this 'it cost nothing' all the time, but it's really a dishonest way to look at the cost of text by putting the entire infrastructure cost on voice.

[dkersten → matwood]

More realistically, you could probably say that text subsidizes voice...