A typical budget plan offers perks in roughly these proportions (per month):

  • 15 GB of mobile data
  • 10 hours of calls
  • 200 SMS

It may be 300, 500, but I've never seen more than 1000 SMS even on 100 GB plans.

An SMS is limited to 160 bytes. Hence one GB of network bandwidth is equivalent to 6250000 SMS. 500 SMS limit is not even a thousandth of a percent dent on the mobile data limit.

What comes to phone calls, a single SMS could fit in half a second of audio dial-up way.

Why not increase the limit?

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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No idea where you are, but I have experience with European services, US and Canadian. In all of them Unlimited calls and texts are the first perk to come along, even at a weedly 200MB data plan.

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