On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:31 AM,
<ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> 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