217,000 text in a month?!!!

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PHILADELPHIA - Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000...

Wow. what kinda program did they run on their phones??

 

[ViviTheMage]

pro

 

[glenn beck]

They could have just sent one character each time, and why the hell did they not get unlimited texting????

 

[mugs]

Such an impressive achievement. :roll:

Originally posted by: glenn beck
They could have just sent one character each time, and why the hell did they not get unlimited texting????

They did, read the article.

 

[ViviTheMage]

if they have unlimited, why did they itemize the bill...just to show how much it WOULD have cost?

who cares...

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: glenn beck
They could have just sent one character each time, and why the hell did they not get unlimited texting????

They did, but the carrier charged one of them anyways.

 

[glenn beck]

Originally posted by: mugs
Such an impressive achievement. :roll:

Originally posted by: glenn beck
They could have just sent one character each time, and why the hell did they not get unlimited texting????

They did, read the article.

too lazy

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: glenn beck

Originally posted by: mugs
Such an impressive achievement. :roll:

Originally posted by: glenn beck
They could have just sent one character each time, and why the hell did they not get unlimited texting????

They did, read the article.

too lazy

Here you go:

Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to get them through the escapade, so Andes didn't expect such a big bill.

"It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday. He said he "panicked" and called T-Mobile, which told The Associated Press it had credited his account and was investigating the charges.

:Q

 

[hypn0tik]

Thanks to them, 'unlimited' text messages is really going to mean a max. of 500 a month or something not 'unlimited'.

 

[TwiceOver]

Just think, that conversation would have probably only taken 3 minutes if they would have called eachother.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Thanks to them, 'unlimited' text messages is really going to mean a max. of 500 a month or something not 'unlimited'.

Other than the itemized bill, how does their 17,000 texts really cost the phone company much?

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Thanks to them, 'unlimited' text messages is really going to mean a max. of 500 a month or something not 'unlimited'.

Other than the itemized bill, how does their 17,000 texts really cost the phone company much?

You're missing a digit

 

[Evadman]

That's 5.02 text messages per minute, 24 hours a day.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: Evadman
That's 4.86 text messages per minute, 24 hours a day.

Fixed. There are 31 days in March.

Edit: Still just as insane/lame.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Thanks to them, 'unlimited' text messages is really going to mean a max. of 500 a month or something not 'unlimited'.

Good. texting is stupid

 

[Newbian]

Waits for phone companies to say unlimited but only mean 250 gb errr.... texts a month.

 

[mugs]

:laugh: Dumbass Consumerist readers are all up in arms about T-Mobile making up their own definition of "unlimited" even though they admitted it was a deficiency in their billing system and they've credited his account (pending approval from the appropriate manager).

http://consumerist.com/5223936...bs-in-stable-condition