Comments on: Scientist Says Texting is More Expensive Than Downloading From Hubble

By: alphonso richardson

alphonso richardson — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:14:20 +0000

Txt me 2 ur leadr

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By: Kevin Stebleton

Kevin Stebleton — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:51:41 +0000

The cell companies are making a profit, and no company seems to be making a huge profit overall. I can only assume the people who text are subsidizing those who don't text.

Personally, I HATE texting. I actually hate IM's. If someone else wants to subsidize my access to a network that lets me talk for 990 miles of a 1000 mile trip, all I can say is THANK YOU THANK YOU. When those providing the subsidies revolt, we'll pay a little more for air time, I suspect.

By: anonymi

anonymi — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:02:02 +0000

*world's

There ought to be a delete button.

By: anonymi

anonymi — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:58:40 +0000

In India, where we have the world lowest mobile tariffs, texting is free. Beat that NASA!

By: JustAGuy

JustAGuy — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:00:02 +0000

Ok. Sweet mother of Gord, your txt costs are only 5p? That's slightly less than 10c Canuck. And most per-use plans here are 15-20c per use. I swear we should burn something down.

By: JustAGuy

JustAGuy — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:49:43 +0000

Seems cheap to me. General rate broadband over cell in Canada goes for about 4c per Kb. That's something like $41/Mb. Yup, that means getting data from Hubble is half the price of checking the weather on my Rogers phone. Sigh.

I mean, I know we have the most expensive data on the planet; I just didn't realize it extended past that.

By: Astrofiend (Syd, Aust)

Astrofiend (Syd, Aust) — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:14:33 +0000

Bloke has too much time on his hands!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:34:02 +0000

Something always smelt fishy about telecom companies. It's part of the New World Odour. HA!

By: Eric Near Buffalo

Eric Near Buffalo — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:15:47 +0000

Yeah, then all the text crazy folks can be called "Nas-holes".

Thank you, I'm here because it's free.

By: Jozef K

Jozef K — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:10:07 +0000

I agree with haplo.

By: Haplo

Haplo — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:37 +0000

NASA should send a telecom texting satellite then

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:08:55 +0000

I'm pretty sure he isn't factoring in launch and maintenance costs of 'the network' as well. It's not a great comparison, but it still brings home the point: most telecom data rates are exploitative.

By: law mc

law mc — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:51:34 +0000

i love getting raped by telecoms companies.