Fascinating comparison from Nigel Bannister at Leicester University (via ShinyShiny) tapology.comText messaging costs four times as much as receiving information from Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope.
It cost £85 to obtain a megabyte of data from Hubble, 595km (370 miles) from Earth, as opposed to sending a 5p text, which works out at about £375 per megabyte.
Scientist Nigel Bannister, of Leicester University, said: ‘Hubble is by no means a cheap mission – but the mobile phone text costs were pretty astronomical.’
In Australia, we have Telstra, Optus and Vodafone and Hutchison as Network providers, and a growing list MVNO's.
In Australia a standard sms text is of 160 characters, which costs $0.25.
1024 characters = 1Kbytes * (lets be generous to the Telcos) = $1.60
1 Mb = 1024 Kbytes, therefore $1.60 x 1024 = $1638.40 (per megabyte).
In Australia it costs a whopping $1638.40 per megabyte of data to be sent via SMS !!!
Mobile communications messages are currently 100% profit to the Telcos.
At the current conversion rate 375 GBP = 773 AUD
Australian Telcos are charging over 200% the amount that their British equivalents are.
I hear someone say "BUT WAIT!!! there's a perfect explanation for this.."
It's called GOUGING !!!
(*definition can vary - kilobyte )
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