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by Bridgexapi on 4/5/2026, 10:00:59 PM

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by: titzer

Back in the 1990s when Telecoms needed to built out networks and infrastructure to cover a vast geography with cell towers to get the last mile delivery, these pricing and delivery models made sense. Today, with hundreds of megabits of bandwidth, a planet-spanning internet, and space-based internet, it does not. SMS is a hilariously backward and outdated system desperately clinging to a pricing model that doesn't reflect carrier costs in the slightest. I shudder to think what the internet would have looked like if thinking like this led to mobile networks being so twisted.

4/7/2026, 12:41:06 AM


by: shubhamjain

Was expecting to learn how SMSes work on the cellular side. Nothing of that sort. This is probably the worst AI slop article I have ever seen with the same thing repeated multiple times, short stupid sentences, which I can only assume is a product of someone pushing his tool/prompts to rank well in search engines.

4/7/2026, 12:45:00 AM


by: Bridgexapi

Small addition:<p>One thing this post does not fully cover is that delivery behavior is not just &quot;success vs failure&quot;.<p>Different routes can behave differently under load, especially in terms of latency and delivery timing.<p>This is something most APIs do not expose at all.<p>A follow-up focused purely on delivery tracking and timing behavior would probably make sense.

4/6/2026, 12:43:49 AM


by: jakehansen

Holy AI slop. How does stuff like this make the front page?

4/7/2026, 12:45:28 AM


by: Bridgexapi

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4/6/2026, 10:57:18 PM


by: Bridgexapi

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4/5/2026, 10:09:35 PM