Is it cheaper to send a bank transfer or an SMS to send a message? Is there a problem with messaging costs?
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This is silly! Get telegram or signal or something people
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Alternatively, wild suggestion: SMS
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Oh interesting, I did not think about lookingā¦ hereās our graph (since beginning of October):
SMS weirdly enough, or was that rhetorical? 
Itās arcane, but unfortunately nothing quite beats its ubiquitous decentralisation (yet).
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But itās nothing like a rich as a messenger app. Send files by SMS?!
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Thatās an interesting spike.
RCS is about the closest to a decentralised short message sharing service that is almost ubiquitous, if it wasnāt for er Apple with their competitor closed garden product and operators not enabling it on their end, meaning that um Google end up doing it in the almost centralised way to get adoption.
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well, MMS is a thingā¦ Was pondering on Twitter about IP over SMS, actually; Nick said to me that Iām fine to get really chatty between two numbers on an unlimited addon as long as itās not more than 99 numbers :^)
(previous version of this post suggested IP over MMS; Iāve since remembered that MMS is just web links delivered over spicy SMS anyway)
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Since you are thinking about IP over SMS, you might enjoy this tweet where someone has done PPPoLED:
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Awesome! Reminds me of someone who built a āmachineā to play Googleās dino with a light sensor hooked up to a servo pressing the spacebarā¦ canāt find it though.
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I still havenāt seen a single Android phone out in the wild where RCS is actually supported. My Android phone on Android 11 keeps pestering me to try the āNew Messages (Beta)ā and every time I click āYes, please!ā, I still see none of the new cool RCS features.
Iāve got RCS enabled on my Android 10 phone, and use it with some people. Requires both people to have it enabled.
Ah. No wonder it never worked. No-one owns an up-to-date Android phone! 
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