Telus and Bell are saying about txting costing them too much, lets do the math.
1 minute of talking uses on average 480KB
That is almost half a MB (1024KB)
The maximum size of a txt message is 160 characters (140 bytes)
Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html
There are 1024 bytes in 1 KB
For one minute of talking using 480KB a minute, that equals out to a
MINIMUM of 3510 txt messages!
Telus and Bell claim Canadians send 45 million txt messages a day.
Ok, so 45 million txts a day equals out to 12820 minutes of calling a
day, or 6.15GB a day of txt messages.
That is peanuts!
A 1 minute call is 20cents (average)
A single txt message is 15 cents to send. 1/3510 of the size
480KB of calling (1 minute) is 20 cents.
480KB of txting (3510) at 15cent a txt is $526.50
Converted thats $1.10 a KB
In comparison, Shaw Internet is $0.0000006825 a KB
45 million txts a day at what they are charging now is 675,000 a DAY!
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