Casey's Tumblelog

The truth is that text messages are ‘stowaways’ inside the control channel — bandwidth that is there whether it is used for texting or not. [snip] In essence it costs carriers practically nothing to transmit even trillions of text messages.

This is not new news, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. I’m not really sure how things will ever get any better though, without some sort of regulation/price capping.