Canadian SMS costs out of this world

140

Max Length of an 8 bit text message

$0.15

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

0.001071

Cost per byte in dollars

$1.10

Cost per KiB

$1,123.47

Cost per MiB

$1,150,437.67

Cost per GiB

750

Size in MiB of a low quality movie download

$842,605.71

Cost of that download at texting rates.

4096

Size in MiB of a high definition movie download

$4,601,750.67

Cost of that download at texting rates.

100,000,000

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

2.794

Actual amount of data handled in GiB³

5,000,000,000

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

139.698

Actual amount of data handled in GiB³

$4,000,000,000

Rogers profit in 2009⁴

$1,738,000,000

BCE's net earnings in 2009⁵

84

Percent increase from 2008

$3,260,000,000

Cost of Cassini-Huygens mission⁶

1997

Year of Launch

6.5

Number of Years operating

1,200,000,000

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

80

Signal Travel Time, in minutes.

1.0

Peak data rate, Gbit/s.

5

Gigabytes of data Cassini sends home daily.⁸

11,862.50

Max amount of data possible, in GiB.

$274,815.60

Cost per GiB

4

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