Canadian SMS costs out of this world

Max Length of an 8 bit text message

140

Cost of sending or receiving a text message in Canada without a plan

$0.15

Cost per byte in dollars

0.001071

Cost per KiB

$1.10

Cost per MiB

$1,123.47

Cost per GiB

$1,150,437.67

Size in MiB of a low quality movie download

750

Cost of that download at texting rates.

$842,605.71

Size in MiB of a high definition movie download

4096

Cost of that download at texting rates.

$4,601,750.67

Number of text messages sent daily by Canadians in the first 9 months of 2009¹

100,000,000

Actual amount of data handled in GiB³

2.794

Number of text messages sent daily by Americans in the last half of 2009²

5,000,000,000

Actual amount of data handled in GiB³

139.698

Rogers profit in 2009⁴

$4,000,000,000

BCE's net earnings in 2009⁵

$1,738,000,000

Percent increase from 2008

84

Cost of Cassini-Huygens mission⁶

$3,260,000,000

Year of Launch

1997

Number of Years operating

6.5

Kilometers from Earth to Titan where Cassini-Huygens is operating.⁷

1,200,000,000

Signal Travel Time, in minutes.

80

Peak data rate, Gbit/s.

1.0

Gigabytes of data Cassini sends home daily.⁸

5

Max amount of data possible, in GiB.

11,862.50

Cost per GiB

$274,815.60

Number of times more expensive texting is than data from space probe.

4