Lightweight messaging clients?

DRNewcomb · **Lightweight messaging clients? -** 14-09-2013, 19:10

Some time back I figured out a way to trigger a callback service by simply "touching" a URL from my mobile phone. The point was that the data usage for doing this was so low that I never saw any data roaming charge on my account.

This has made me wonder if there might be a very low-overhead messaging protocol, perhaps using UDP packets that could substitute for SMS and be able to more-or-less fly below the billing radar, or be so small that the billing would be insignificant.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	Lightweight messaging clients? - 14-09-2013, 19:10 Some time back I figured out a way to trigger a callback service by simply "touching" a URL from my mobile phone. The point was that the data usage for doing this was so low that I never saw any data roaming charge on my account. This has made me wonder if there might be a very low-overhead messaging protocol, perhaps using UDP packets that could substitute for SMS and be able to more-or-less fly below the billing radar, or be so small that the billing would be insignificant.