Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:10:58 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Well, and the "lingo" evolved because the billing used to be "by the
>>> character", IIRC.
>> 
>> Not really. It's because SMS messages are limited to 160 characters.
> 
> Well, yeah, but each message used to be (and in some places/on some
> plans, still is) billed by the message.  That's what I was thinking.  So
> conserving space was/is an important consideration in that venue.

Yes, definitely.

I mean it was never charged per character. It was and is charged per
message, but their length is ridiculously limited :)

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