Why spend so much money on SMS settings?

In fact, the current SMS is not sent to ordinary users at all, just a verification code. Look at the text messages in the mobile phone. Most of them are short messages with special service numbers such as port 106 or 95/65/ 12. If the SMS port is wholesale, it's only a few cents.

China Unicom said: SMS is charged by article, and 70 Chinese characters or 160 English letters are one SMS, generally 0. 1 yuan/article. The charges for different packages are different. Unicom users can log in to China Unicom Mobile Phone Business Hall APP to view package information.

China Telecom charges 0. 1 yuan/article. If there is news in the bag, it is free as long as it does not exceed.

China Mobile said: At present, most packages send 0. 1 RMB/message, and the reception is free (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). In view of the different business rules and tariffs in different provinces, you can call local 10086 for consultation.

Extended data:

There are two kinds of short messages: one is text or digital information sent or received directly by users through mobile phones or other telecommunication terminals, and the number of characters that users can receive and send short messages at a time is 160 English or digital characters or 70 Chinese characters. One is MMS, which is characterized by supporting multimedia functions and transmitting comprehensive content and information.

Unicom users said that 4G users have 300 text messages (and 5 yuan rice noodle cards) every month, which can hardly be used up. ...

Also, if you are a mobile user and want to send peer-to-peer messages, you can download and send a fetion to the mobile user for free (as long as it is a mobile phone number, you don't need to add friends or register the other party).