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Not that many people are likely to download Hubble data, but the figures wereused by the Channel 4DISPATCHES programme 'The Mobile Phone Rip-Off'to show how phone companies were tucking up their punters.
University of Leicester space scientist Dr Nigel Banister worked out thecost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the 5pcost of sending a text.
He said that that texting is at least four times more expensive thantransmitting data from Hubble.
Basically the figures are thus. A text message is 160 characters, which takesup 140 bytes. A million SMS messages can be contained in a megabyte and at 5peach, that's £374.49 per MB.
This is 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate forHubble Space Telescope transmission costs which are about £85 a megabyte, if youtake into account the ground stations and the cost of chocolate biscuits for theoperators.
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