From our better late than never dept, Sam Garfield has been looking into the cost of sending text messages via AT&T.
He's calculated that the cost of transferring 2,560 MP3 files is around $1 via his ISP but more than $61 million via SMS. In fact, he reckons SMS is even more expensive than getting the bits hand-delivered on paper to your front door ($307,072). They would admittedly be less useful that way, but as Sam says: "The cost would drop dramatically if we compressed the data onto, say a DVD and our cost would be something more like $1.20."
That's quite a saving over $61 million, should you ever be tempted to text someone 2,560 songs.
Of course, if you just want to ask your spouse to pick up some eggs on the way home, cutting a DVD is probably not the best approach....
