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Is it still like that in Switzerland? Here in Denmark I'd be hard pressed to find a plan without both free SMS and MMS, at least domestically.

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In Germany you'll still pay 0.39€ / MMS even in otherwise unlimited-everything contracts. Needless to say it never was used widely. Personally I've only sent them very rarely and in almost all cases out of a misguided automated conversion, which I was never happy about.

It's weird how big the difference can be just across our border to the south, I wonder what sort of market forces that have caused this. It's not as if SMS/MMS services actually costs the telcos anything beyond the small amount of data in the messages.

I guess it does explain why people use apps like Telegram and WhatsApp while their usage is close to non-existent here.

In finland my plan has sms priced at 0.07e and mms at 0.40e. Unsurprisingly I've probably sent only a handful of mms in my lifetime.

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