Posted on 04/22/2009 2:35:43 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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. 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. The two Lancaster-area residents have been practically nonstop texters for about a decade since they attended Berks Technical Institute together. That led Andes to search for the largest monthly text message total he could find posted online: 182,000 sent in 2005 by Deepak Sharma in India. Andes and Klinger were able to set up their phones to send multiple messages. During a February test run they found they could send 6,000 or 7,000 messages on some days, prompting the March messaging marathon. "Most were either short phrases or one word, 'LOL' or 'Hello,' things like that, with tons and tons of repeats," said Andes, reached by phone. Andes sent more than 140,000 messages, and Klinger sent more than 70,000 to end the month with a total of just over 217,000, he said. A spokesman for Guinness World Records didn't immediately return messages asking whether it would be certified as a record. April came as a relief to Andes' wife, Julie, who had found his phone tied up with texting when she tried to call him on lunch breaks. "She was tired of it the first few days into it," Andes said.
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They should have sent a text-message question...
I wonder what they studied at the Institue? Massage therapy maybe? Here’s a link:
http://www.berkstechnical.com/
Uh, who's the Einstein that boxed it up and spent $27.55 on postage before doing some investigating?????
Morons!
Uncaring imbeciles like these two are the true definition of a ‘waste of space, air, life and time’. I’m hoping the carrier sticks to their charges and breaks these two putzes.
Morons everywhere.
Just got a brokerage statement.
The transaction netted .02
I kid you not. They mailed this to me,full postage.
It said they had “unlimited text messaging plans”.
That is what my family has. If you pay for unlimited, you should get unlimited.
Of course the other matter of doing something that is a complete waste of time for hours on end is really stupid.
It said they had “unlimited text messaging plans”.
That is what my family has. If you pay for unlimited, you should get unlimited.
Of course the other matter of doing something that is a complete waste of time for hours on end is really stupid.
What your said... exactly. Ripe for Americorp Obama volunteerism. With many trying to reduce their Internet-Time Suckage, crowding out every corner of their lives, these guys actually sought out something that has to be the most phenomenal waste of time I've heard of since Earth Day.
If you do something ridiculously stupid all day on Earth Day (which is ridiculously stupid). Do the two stupid things cancel each other out and make it a positive?
Ha exactly my thoughts. Any normal person I know would think there was a computer glitch before sending this thing out.
They had unlimited text messaging plans. Text messages actually use less airtime and bandwidth than regular voice messages.
Abuse is still abuse when it is for no good purpose. Re: texting less bandwidth less than voice -——when you’re texting 24/7/365, do you think that’s more equivalent total BW than voice under normal circumstances? That kind of crap still fills up unused background BW and overhead on the system.
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