Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages ‘ride’ on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are ‘free’ from the infrastructure point of view.
Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you’ll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.
Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages ‘ride’ on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are ‘free’ from the infrastructure point of view.
Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you’ll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.
In Italy we don’t have the concept of “lobbying representatives”. It’s a US thing.
Lobbying doesnt always have to include €€€.
It could mean as mich as writing an email to mKe your standpoint known.
https://data.ipu.org/parliament/IT/IT-LC01/basic/contact-details/
There. 5 seconds to figure out how to email your parliament. That’s not an exaggeration.
edit: for good measure here’s your eu commission representative contact info too. https://italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/chi-siamo/commissione-europea-rappresentanza-italia_it