Comment by lxgr
2 years ago
It’s not countries mandating a minimum price (although regulators often impose a maximum), but the carriers themselves.
> If you are drawing as much billable traffic as you are sending
SMS verification traffic is usually unidirectional, so that’s very unlikely to be the case.
Yes but in this case we are describing old-school Twitter, in which people made their tweets via SMS. That's why it was easier for them to make these deals.