{"id":1110,"date":"2008-07-02T20:51:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2008-07-02T20:51:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T01:51:34","slug":"text-messages-are-the-printer-ink-of-the-cell-phone-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/02\/text-messages-are-the-printer-ink-of-the-cell-phone-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Messages are the Printer Ink of the Cell Phone Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/SMS-Youre-Paying-1310-Or-More-Per-Megabyte-95739\">DSLReports<\/a> has an entry up where they do the math on just how much you&#8217;re really paying for those cell phone text messages, now that T-Mobile has joined other providers in charging 20 cents per message.<\/p>\n<p>According to the math done by others, those 140 byte messages being sent at 20 cents each add up to $1,310 per megabyte.  Considering that the average $20 USB flash drive these days is measure in gigabytes, and the average broadband Internet connection is measured in megabits per second, it&#8217;s amazing how much we pay per text message.<\/p>\n<p>As for the reference in the title, it comes from articles on the idea that for the price you pay for the average inkjet printer cartridge, a gallon of printer ink would cost you over $5000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSLReports has an entry up where they do the math on just how much you&#8217;re really paying for those cell phone text messages, now that T-Mobile has joined other providers in charging 20 cents per message. According to the math done by others, those 140 byte messages being sent at 20 cents each add up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/02\/text-messages-are-the-printer-ink-of-the-cell-phone-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Text Messages are the Printer Ink of the Cell Phone Industry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,4,2],"tags":[62,63,449,61],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-technology","category-websites","tag-cell-phones","tag-ink-jet","tag-technology","tag-text-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}