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minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoYou’re insanely correct, and it was extra fucked because it wasn’t even MORE DATA being used. It was piggybacking on unused data packets already being sent to towers, hence the character limit. BUT WE CAN NAKE MORE MONEY IF WE CHARGE FOR THAT
minus-squareIlluminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·8 months ago23 years ago, text messaging on Cingular was 100% fucking free. Some of these people are just making up bullshit off the top of their heads.
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoThen Cingular was fucking DOPE. I sold phones in 2006 and almost all (if not all) of the plans cost money per text. We did not have Cingular though!
You’re insanely correct, and it was extra fucked because it wasn’t even MORE DATA being used. It was piggybacking on unused data packets already being sent to towers, hence the character limit. BUT WE CAN NAKE MORE MONEY IF WE CHARGE FOR THAT
23 years ago, text messaging on Cingular was 100% fucking free.
Some of these people are just making up bullshit off the top of their heads.
Then Cingular was fucking DOPE.
I sold phones in 2006 and almost all (if not all) of the plans cost money per text. We did not have Cingular though!