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Why Do We Still Pay for Voice Calls?

It's 2015. We have self-driving cars, mobile devices that rival laptops built 3 years ago, gigabit Internet connections and still, service providers make us pay for voice calling and SMS. That seems to be the dumbest thing to me. Let me explain... There are generally three things that you do on your phone, that needs to communicate with the network. First, there is voice calling, then there is SMS and lastly, there is web browsing and other stuff that requires an Internet connection. Now, put simply, Internet is all about sending data up and down, and if you think, SMS is also data. If we had a system, SMS can also be sent using the Internet. No I'm not talking about free SMS services here. Some of you might argue if we really need to have the SMS feature, but that's a different story. And then there is voice. VoIP anybody? That's been out there for ages! Why not route all the voice calls through the Internet? That's a question I'd like to ask the service