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Comment by johnisgood

14 hours ago

You had to pay for receiving SMS?

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thewebguyd  5 hours ago

Yeah, in the early days, at least in the US, carriers used to charge for both incoming and outgoing SMS unless you had a plan that included it, usually with a limited amount of messages and they were quite expensive for the time.

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