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Situation in Japan
I guess that because Japan evolved its own mobile phone system for a while, users in Japan (including me) got a better deal.
Although there is some kind of horrible short messaging service (THAT SEEM TO DIAL UP THE OTHER PHONE!), all phones in Japan come with an email address and there is no real and practical limitation in length i have seen.
It is terrible to see too that the article correctly points out that sending SMS is "free" for the operator (it uses a signaling channel between the base stations and the phone which remains mostly idle), operator charge a crazy amount for the privilege to send a SMS... Still wonder how they managed not to get hit by some kind of world-wide anti-trust investigation.