Sunday, November 22, 2009

AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte

AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte

Today is basic math day at CrunchGear where we discovered that if 160 bytes of SMS data
costs twenty cents then 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) of data would cost 131,072 cents,
or $1,310.72.


Check out the prices for a text
message plan on AT&T
, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone
3G
in the United States. AT&T wants twenty cents ($0.20) per text
message if you don’t sign up for a plan. A text message is nothing more than 160
bytes of data. The max is 160 characters, and one character equals one byte of
data. Great.+6


In other words, if AT&T charged data downloads at the rate
they charge text messages downloading 1MB of data would cost you
$1,310.72.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Somali pirates attack French military flagship - Yahoo! News

Somali pirates attack French military flagship - Yahoo! News

NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy's 18,000
tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the
French military said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009