• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Only “benefit” of RCS I’ve seen is the avalanche of spam from companies. I’ll be turning it off. Don’t text that much anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Can confirm. With rcs on I get more messages from fucking insurance companies than my own people. Fuck Google and fuck their products.

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      1 year ago

      i mean sms messages are extremely expensive and when you need to contact someone over sms rcs can be a life saver

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t know you could even get a phone subscription without unlimited calls, sms, and mms anymore.

        After a bit of looking I couldn’t find any subscription without it.

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          1 year ago

          I actually have a dirt cheap $15/mo Public Mobile Canada plan that has 250MB data and 100 minutes… and even that has unlimited SMS.

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              1 year ago

              It’s literally the cheapest plan I can find anywhere that includes any data. I can get $8/mo for unlimited talk and text but zero data.

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          1 year ago

          well I’m in ukraine, don’t know anything about us.
          yeah, all plans have unlimited calls (within the same carrier) but not sms (which usually cost around 2 cents/message) here
          sms is basically dead anyway… (it’s basically just a confirmation code delivery system)

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            1 year ago

            That’s so strange! Here in the US lots of people still use sms, and it’s free/included unlimited in all the plans. I have heard previously other countries like in Asia and stuff, don’t really use sms either though, so that’s interesting to me…