12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
1:31 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
- The app is more in favour of the operator than the user. SMS characters limit = 160, 1Mbyte characters limit = 1,000,000 ( or close ). Costs of 1 SMS versus 1 Mbyte is hugely out of proprotional. Big looser is the end user.
Maybe not... i dont know about this particular service -- but Zain have a similar thing which I have seen some NGOs using in the field. Its basically SMS without 160 char limitations -- you can send long SMS which gets transformed to email. The carrier charge (if i recall correctly ) irrespective of length was that of a single sms. ashok