Teen sends 14,528 text messages in one month

"The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is 1742,
the Post said."

Over 50 texts a day?? That's average??


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/arti...608662861.html

Teen sends 14,528 text messages in one month

An American teenager sent almost 500 text messages a day last month,
leaving her father with a phone bill of 440 pages.

Reina Hardesty, 13, sent 14,528 text messages in December - about 470
text messages a day, at an average of a message every two minutes if she
was awake for 15 hours each day, the New York Post said.

Her father, Greg, said he was shocked to receive a 440 page phone bill
last month.

"First, I laughed. I thought: 'That's insane, that's impossible'," Mr
Hardesty told the Post.

"And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly
possible.

"Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill."

He asked his daughter: "Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?"

Reina said she messaged a core group of "four obsessive texters" - all
girls between the ages of 12 and 13.

"Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them
pretty much all the time," she said.

At a karaoke birthday party, Reina texted her best friend, who was
sitting right next to her while others were singing, the Post said.

She also texted her friends to brag about the high number of text
messages she had racked up when her parents got the bill.

Fortunately for her parents, Reina's phone plan allows unlimited texting
for $US30 a month.

Otherwise the phone bill would have been about $2900, the Post said.

Reina's parents have since placed restrictions on her phone use,
forbidding her from texting after dinner.

The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is 1742, the
Post said.

smh.com.au

$)C"> Horry "> <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote...

>
> "The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is 1742,
> the Post said."

> Over 50 texts a day?? That's average??

With Telstra that's around $370 a month.

Noice little earner if you can get it.

And for not doing much for it, either...

? Horry ? wrote:
> "The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is 1742,
> the Post said."
>
> Over 50 texts a day?? That's average??
>

Dunno what the average is, but we spotted an account that was sending an
average of 150 messages per day back in about 2001. Only paying $5 for them
too.
There was a limitation back then with prepaid services that would let you go
to negative balance when texting (it only checked your outstanding balance
when initiating voice calls - SMS messages went through regardless) then,
because the account was prepaid and theoretically should never have gone
into debt, the billing batch jobs would reset the balance back to $0. The
customer would make a $5 payment the next day and start all over again.

--
Kwyj.

Kwyjibo wrote:
> ? Horry ? wrote:
>> "The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old is
>> 1742, the Post said."
>>
>> Over 50 texts a day?? That's average??
>>
>
> Dunno what the average is, but we spotted an account that was sending
> an average of 150 messages per day back in about 2001. Only paying $5
> for them too.
> There was a limitation back then with prepaid services that would let
> you go to negative balance when texting (it only checked your
> outstanding balance when initiating voice calls - SMS messages went
> through regardless)

Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS messages
were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied to the account
nightly.


--
Kwyj.

> Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS messages
> were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied to the account
> nightly.

He's right.

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:33 +0000, Michael wrote:

>> Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS
>> messages were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied to
>> the account nightly.
>
> He's right.

And we've had this conversation many times before.

"Horry" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:gl6vg7$bj6$1@news.datemas.de...
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:33 +0000, Michael wrote:
>
>>> Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS
>>> messages were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied to
>>> the account nightly.
>>
>> He's right.
>
> And we've had this conversation many times before.

C'mon, we've been friends for 13 years, surely we can repeat ourselves.
Where is Dean Hollister when you need him?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:15:34 +0000, Michael wrote:

> "Horry" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:gl6vg7$bj6$1@news.datemas.de...
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:33 +0000, Michael wrote:
>>
>>>> Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS
>>>> messages were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied
>>>> to the account nightly.
>>>
>>> He's right.
>>
>> And we've had this conversation many times before.
>
> C'mon, we've been friends for 13 years, surely we can repeat ourselves.
> Where is Dean Hollister when you need him?

And Angus Mann. And Matthew McDonald.

"Horry" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:gl7dbv$klk$2@news.datemas.de...
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:15:34 +0000, Michael wrote:
>
>> "Horry" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:gl6vg7$bj6$1@news.datemas.de...
>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:33 +0000, Michael wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Actually - got that bit wrong. The balance WAS checked, but SMS
>>>>> messages were not billed in real time. They were batched and applied
>>>>> to the account nightly.
>>>>
>>>> He's right.
>>>
>>> And we've had this conversation many times before.
>>
>> C'mon, we've been friends for 13 years, surely we can repeat ourselves.
>> Where is Dean Hollister when you need him?
>
> And Angus Mann. And Matthew McDonald.

Ah yes. Dunno what happened to Angus. Matthew just petered out after a
while. Wonder if he still has his kickass mobile number?