@LuFins-Dad said in Direct-to-cell:
This is frigging amazing and TIMELY… I’ve been thinking a lot about intercontinental communications with Luke in London this week.
It started with Luke being astounded that they wanted $12 per day for an international data plan this week. I laughed and told him it wasn’t too long ago that it was $4 per minute to London, and that when I was his age, it would have cost 20¢ per minute just to call somewhere 90 miles away… Then we decided to just use Facebook Messenger when he’s somewhere with WiFi access for video calls. It hit me just how absurd it is that we can video call for free over the internet, but still have relatively high international calling rates. I think those days are coming to an end, but I don’t think people appreciate just how cheap communications have become over the last 30 years…
Good points. I remember when I first went to Europe I called home and didn’t realize until later it cost like $35. Now my brother in Denmark calls me for free via “FaceTime audio”.