Monthly Archives November 2008

What costs more? SMS or Hubble Data Transmission?

Dr Nigel Bannister (University of Leicester) worked out cost of obtaining 1 megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text SMS. He said: “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to besubstantially more [...]

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