Two men set out with the ambition to see how many text message they could send a month and rallied up 217,000 messages. The duo Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to pay for the fiasco.In a mixup on T-mobile's end a bill was sent to Andes for the whopping sum of $26,000 which, as you can imagine, had him stunned at the expenses incurred. The bill alone cost T-Mobile $27.55 to ship to Andes but thankfully T-Mobile honored their unlimited text messaging plan and credit the amount back to the user.
The two were hoping to set a guiness record for the most texts in a month but it has yet to be confirmed by Guiness World Records. It's quite amazing that they were able to send 217,000 message which averages out to about 7000 messages a day, 291 an hour or 4 every minute for the entire month. It's unclear from the story if these were actual messages transaction or if it was a program that was able to spam the messages.
Bleh, this is starting to get old... even more so now that we have people trying to do just that.
Bleh, this is starting to get old... even more so now that we have people trying to do just that.
+1
There is no system abuse. Texting takes absolutely no resources from the cell phone provider.
Exactly!! In fact sending a few text message has far less of an impact than a voice conversation. You would think carriers would encourage texting by making it free to save the bandwidth it takes to send voice. But we all know they are trying to make money however they can, not change us what it actually costs them to provide something.
Since when do the operators have to provide any service for free? You want something, you pay for it. If not, it is not that critical for you, is it? It is the basic concept of a free society. You are not forced to use the service. There are alternatives.
It is, however, true that the price for the service is quite high compared to what it cost to setup and operate. Make no mistake, initial fixed costs to provide the service are quite high, opex on the other side is minimal. In fact, it is piggybacking on BTS signalling channels. But in order to provide the service, you have to build whole infrastructure for voice and data upon which the SMS service is piggybacking. And that is as I have mentioned, very expensive.
And of course, it is quite easy to overload the signaling thus degrading Voice and Data services, especially in city centres.
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It is, however, true that the price for the service is quite high compared to what it cost to setup and operate. Make no mistake, initial fixed costs to provide the service are quite high, opex on the other side is minimal. In fact, it is piggybacking on BTS signalling channels. But in order to provide the service, you have to build whole infrastructure for voice and data upon which the SMS service is piggybacking. And that is as I have mentioned, very expensive.
And of course, it is quite easy to overload the signaling thus degrading Voice and Data services, especially in city centres.
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+1 try comming to New Zealand and sending a txt on new years day 12:05am you cant because the system is overloaded i have had txts show up as much as 4 days later
You could say the same for those who spend all day on here.
just thank god it wasnt some dumb little kid
yep.
Yeah? And?
lol, you know a lot of us waste time at work on here, right? Basically getting paid to chat on forums and surf websites, good to know where your tax dollars are going eh?
*that was a total smash on government employees.
just thank god it wasnt some dumb little kid
Gotta hate on kids eh?
Get that Guiness book ready for me....
Get that Guiness book ready for me....
I would have beaten you until other day i was nearly at 19 months no txt messages
See, now THAT'S admirable.
Get that Guiness book ready for me....
My parents have tons of years and still going on... 0 messages.
Get that Guiness book ready for me....
I would have beaten you until other day i was nearly at 19 months no txt messages
I've never sent a txt msg so beat that.... and im 22
Hmm, I'm sensing a weakness in my world-record attempt...
Otherwise they should also get a Guinness record for least amount of sleep/productivity in a month.
their social cheques!
didn't they know that cellphone companies changed the definition of the word unlimited? it now means: "unlimited text messaging but for a limited time only"?
ignorant fools.
Thats just rude.
And getting very old.
As for how they did it, they probably set up another phone and kept sending the same message to it.
Maybe that will help them get a life!!
Hooray! But when you're 29 and 30 isn't it time to move out of mom's basement and find a JOB?????
Wow, did I just over think that or what.
Good luck to everyone trying to cut your wireless expenses in this rough economy.
Dylan
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