A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Scientist Says Texting is More Expensive Than Downloading From Hubble
universetoday.comFound 53 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes, and 40 seconds agoDoes your cell phone bill ever reach astronomical proportions? Maybe you're doing too much texting. One space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Costs of Text Messaging vs. Space Transmissions
thelede.blogs.nytimes.comFound 53 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes, and 9 seconds agoNeed another reason to get angry at your next cell phone bill? Turn to Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester in Britain, who has concluded that sending a mundane, ubiquitous text message costs at least four times as much as transmitting scientific data from the Hubble telescope. ...
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textually.org
This is one of the stranger assumptions made about text messaging pricing. Via the NY Times The Lede Blog.
"Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester in Britain, has concluded that sending a text message costs at least four times as much as transmitting scientific data from the Hubble telescope ."
Dr Nigel Bannister's calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches program "The Mobile Phone Rip-Off".
He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble - and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
dealarchitect.typepad.com
"The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the 'most pessimistic' estimate for Hubble Space Telescope transmission costs."
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Found 52 days, 20 hours, 55 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
science.slashdot.org
paradoxSpirit writes "Physorg has a paper comparing the cost of text messaging versus the cost of getting data from Hubble Space Telescope. From the article: 'The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.
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hurricaneradio.blogspot.com
Last week, one of the greatest thing that ever happened to me took place: I lost my cell phone. I'm pretty sure it's near (but not in) the lake. I've spent a week without the phone and couldn't be happier. I can still check my messages by dialing the number and using my remote password. I just can't be interrupted with phone calls. Too bad eventually I'll have to replace my phone. The upside to having my phone is being able to talk to my wife on my commutes to and from work but it's been really nice just checking for messages occasionally.
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 51 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
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The 21st century has brought us many great wonders… like new ways for phone companies to charge outrageous prices while locking us into contracts (at least here in the US):
Scientist Says Texting is More Expensive Than Downloading From Hubble | Universe Today : "One space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester looked at the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared it with the cost of sending a text.
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes ago
andika-lives-here.blogspot.com
Dr. Nigel Bannister dari Universitas Leicester telah memperoleh perkiraan biaya transmisi data Hubble dari pihak NASA. Angka yang diperoleh adalah sekitar 8,85 poundsterling per megabyte (sekitar 160 ribu rupiah). Apabila dihitung juga biaya transmisi ke pengguna akhir, maka biaya itu bisa membengkak menjadi 85 poundsterling per megabyte (sekitar 1,5 juta rupiah).
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
captsolo.net
SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble [SlashDot]
"Physorg has a paper comparing the cost of text messaging versus the cost of getting data from Hubble Space Telescope .
From the article: 'The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte.
Found 53 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
boingboing.hexten.net
You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters' worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you're paying about a zillion bucks a meg for that traffic -- seriously! A space scientist from Leicester has calculated that SMS data is four times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope.
He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble - and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.
He said: "The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
Found 53 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
abbashalai.com
You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters' worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you're paying about a zillion bucks a meg for that traffic -- seriously! A space scientist from Leicester has calculated that SMS data is four times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope .
He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble - and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.He said: "The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
Found 53 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
planet.journals.ie
SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble [SlashDot]
"Physorg has a paper comparing the cost of text messaging versus the cost of getting data from Hubble Space Telescope .
From the article: 'The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte.
Found 53 days, 2 hours, 33 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
aardvark.co.nz
14 May 2008
There's an interesting story
on the wires this morning in which it's claimed that UK SMS rates are higher
than the cost of downloading data from the orbiting Hubble space telescope.
According to Dr Nigel Bannister's calculations, it costs four times as much
to send a character via SMS as it does to receive one from the Hubble.
Quite honestly, I think that Dr Bannister's calculations are extremely conservative,
allowing 160 characters per message whereas I strongly suspect that the average
SMS message is far shorter than the allowed maximum.
Found 52 days, 12 hours, 53 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
samharrelson.net
The 21st century has brought us many great wonders… like new ways for phone companies to charge outrageous prices while locking us into contracts (at least here in the US):
Scientist…
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 51 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
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You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters' worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you're paying about a zillion bucks a meg for that traffic -- seriously! ...
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