Comments on: Americans charged $1000 per MB for text http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/07/americans_charged_1000_per_mb_for_text.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:15:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Why the SMS industry is booming. « Your Mileage May Vary http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/07/americans_charged_1000_per_mb_for_text.html/comment-page-1#comment-77914 Why the SMS industry is booming. « Your Mileage May Vary Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:44:08 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/07/americans_charged_1000_per_mb_for_text.html#comment-77914 [...] (Via) (Via) [...] [...] (Via) (Via) [...]

]]> By: Daniel http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/07/americans_charged_1000_per_mb_for_text.html/comment-page-1#comment-77913 Daniel Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:41:49 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/07/americans_charged_1000_per_mb_for_text.html#comment-77913 mobilejones made a mistake. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service" rel="nofollow">Wiki says</a> the characters in a GSM-standard 160 character SMS are <b>7</b> bits, not eight. So you need to at about 14% onto their figures. 8 bit characters max out at only 140 characters due to the limit of 1120 bytes/SMS (I think CDMA uses 8 bit characters?), and languages that require the full Unicode character set (16 bits) only allow for 70 characters. I did the numbers for Australia (using the 7-bit, 160 character standard we all know and love) on my blog. Ouch! mobilejones made a mistake. Wiki says the characters in a GSM-standard 160 character SMS are 7 bits, not eight. So you need to at about 14% onto their figures. 8 bit characters max out at only 140 characters due to the limit of 1120 bytes/SMS (I think CDMA uses 8 bit characters?), and languages that require the full Unicode character set (16 bits) only allow for 70 characters.

I did the numbers for Australia (using the 7-bit, 160 character standard we all know and love) on my blog. Ouch!

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