Facts about SMS

We cant imagine a life without SMS(some of my friends can survive without air or food but not without SMs). The cute little thing which we take for granted does a lot of work for us. In a voice call We dont finish the call after we communicate what we wanted to. One leads to another and the call ends after 15mins. There are cases where we forget why we called for .But an SMS is a time saver(at times a big time waster too). Let us read the other stuffs we dont know about our friendly cellphone SMS.

SOme operators charge for an sms(shame on them) and some give it for free(hurray).

FUN FACTS
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The costs incurred by the operator to transmit one SMS is 1/80th of a one minute voice call.

A one minute voice call transmits about 720kilobytes(kb) of data.

An SMS transmits 1/10th of a kilobyte (0.136Kb to be exact)

TRAI has announced that 82 Billion messages were sent in India in 2008.

The operators dont require a special space to transmit SMS. SMS is a free rider sandwiched into a space which is otherwise unutilised by the Operator themselves.

source THe Hindu Bangalore Edition----september 20 2009.

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