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Here's How Much SMS phone operators Mobile

A U.S. senator has cornered four American carriers and makes a sensational discovery ....

Have you ever wondered how much your carrier to send all your SMS? What it takes ... subtract their costs more than the taxes that we pay (on average 20 euro cents), or not?
In fact, if we think about it we realize that despite the changing technology professionals for years continue to focus on SMS as the main business model. Why?

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And yet, because the operators are able to transmit TV programs on our mobile devices but still bind us to 160 characters for messages?

If it is asked a U.S. senator, Herb Kohl , which intrigued by the smokescreen that obscures the data of this source of income has taken the bull by the horns. In September 2008 he sent requests for clarification Verizon Wireless, AT & T , Sprint and T-Mobile inviting them to make public the details on prices and costs SMS, motivated by the following considerations;

1. In 2008 were sent into the world 2.5 trillion text messages
2. From 2005 to 2008 in USA has doubled the price of SMS (also here in Italy there has been some upward)
   
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T, Sprint and T-Mobile have responded in writing to Senator Kohl digress phone plans and pricing schemes without explaining in detail what is required by the senator. The Verizon Wireless did not want to talk with Kohl and prevented the publication of the response given in writing.
Oversimplified traveling in a text message this way:

• Switch between phone wirelessly to the repeater closest
• then travels trabia cabling to the other repeater to the next recipient
• From this again wirelessly to the mobile target

Since operators do not They want to disclose the cost, we hypothesize that these are generated by wireless transmissions to and from the repeaters ends of the wiring ...
But the twist is revealed by Keshav Srinivasan, a professor of computer science at the ' University of Waterloo. owner in the past of a research funded by one of four carriers such nonsense and dared to ask why this kind of information for the purpose of the research reveals the mystery; an SMS operator costs 0 cents. Like a million SMS cost € 0.
The SMS is hidden in the signal that connects your phone to the nearest repeater, signal that exists apart from sending SMS . Use part of this signal called Control Channel (Channel Control) using it as a Trojan horse.

years that's why I'm not exceed the limit of 160 characters per SMS, because otherwise the message can not be hidden in the control signal to travel to latch!
And us? A Telecom, Wind, Wind and Tre how much we send SMS?
Article What Carriers Are not Eager to Tell You About Texting of Randall Stross was posted on New York Times last December 26, 2008 and also picked up by Wired but strangely moved unnoticed.

Daniele Di Gregorio