And a lot of people had to pay per SMS/minute! At least, for the plans that didn’t require a contract or a huge load of money up front. Remember Net10, where the gimmick was prepaying for $.10/minute, and text messages around $.05 apiece?
wasn’t it the long distance thing? charged for sending SMS outside of your network or something. I recall whatsapp was the way to text your parents from one country in to another, even in the EU.
I know for a fact my fam adopted almost a decade ago, so we can text from USA to EU to SA to Canada. Family all over and it’s free.
This seems a bit revisionist. Everyone had an amount of smses per month that were free in their contract.
People switched to whatsapp because it was better than sms.
And a lot of people had to pay per SMS/minute! At least, for the plans that didn’t require a contract or a huge load of money up front. Remember Net10, where the gimmick was prepaying for $.10/minute, and text messages around $.05 apiece?
wasn’t it the long distance thing? charged for sending SMS outside of your network or something. I recall whatsapp was the way to text your parents from one country in to another, even in the EU.
I know for a fact my fam adopted almost a decade ago, so we can text from USA to EU to SA to Canada. Family all over and it’s free.