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RE: No cheap cell providers in the US?
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Sending a text message is four times more expensive (in terms of pence per byte of data) than NASA receiving data from the Hubble Telescope

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RE: No cheap cell providers in the US?
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Sending a text message is four times more expensive (in terms of pence per byte of data) than NASA receiving data from the Hubble Telescope
Wherever you got that information from is completely wrong. Look at this article at Gizmodo about bandwidth usage and rounding down prices and you'll see that they're basically free. Here's another article.
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RE: RE: No cheap cell providers in the US?
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Sending a text message is four times more expensive (in terms of pence per byte of data) than NASA receiving data from the Hubble Telescope
Wherever you got that information from is completely wrong. Look at this article at Gizmodo about bandwidth usage and rounding down prices and you'll see that they're basically free. Here's another article.

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