Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an...
  • KKSakura@kbin.social
    18·
    1 year ago

    having flashbacks to a time telcoms charged $$ per text. what a desperate move to extract every bit of $$ from the literal sharing of information

    • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      Man that was so bullshit, text messages piggyback on the wireless handshake so they cost telecoms literally zero money.

    • BaconIsAVeg@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Or when CallerID was an additional $8/month. It’s fucking DNS for telephone numbers. Can you imagine if ISP’s had charged extra for DNS and everyone decided to just memorize IP addresses instead?