Traditionally, mobile networks provided two products: phone calls, and text messages.
Then, as demand for it grew, they started offering data.
Now ultimately, all they offer is data; the data for a phone call, a text message, a website, a video stream, et cetera...
And so it seems strange that for a phone call, or a text message, when the data is so small, the price is so high.
Particularly when services such as Apple's push notifications offer effectively the same thing for free.
Furthermore, being able to make a call, send a text, or receive either is, by today's standards, technologically convoluted. You need
a premium account with a mobile network,
a live connection to this and ONLY this network,
a sim card
a mobile handset.
Why not make mobile calls and texts more accessible than ONLY with a sim and phone, on ONE network?
Like a protocol to let mobiles text and call over other networks than their own, such as wifi. Or make a login via a computer browser, or POP/IMAP protocol like email has.
How can the communications for mobile phones remain so expensive, proprietary, and locked up!?!
Then, as demand for it grew, they started offering data.
Now ultimately, all they offer is data; the data for a phone call, a text message, a website, a video stream, et cetera...
And so it seems strange that for a phone call, or a text message, when the data is so small, the price is so high.
Particularly when services such as Apple's push notifications offer effectively the same thing for free.
Furthermore, being able to make a call, send a text, or receive either is, by today's standards, technologically convoluted. You need
a premium account with a mobile network,
a live connection to this and ONLY this network,
a sim card
a mobile handset.
Why not make mobile calls and texts more accessible than ONLY with a sim and phone, on ONE network?
Like a protocol to let mobiles text and call over other networks than their own, such as wifi. Or make a login via a computer browser, or POP/IMAP protocol like email has.
How can the communications for mobile phones remain so expensive, proprietary, and locked up!?!