{"id":247,"date":"2009-04-26T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-04-26T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:33:00","slug":"two-men-send-217000-text-messages-26000-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/04\/two-men-send-217000-text-messages-26000-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men send 217,000 text messages, $26,000 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr583_ContentPane\" class=\"DNNAligncenter\"><span id=\"spBody\" class=\"Forum_Normal\">Two men set out with the ambition to see how many <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: static;color:#009600;\" ><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 150, 0); font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative; background-color: transparent;\">text <\/span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 150, 0); font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative; background-color: transparent;\">message<\/span><\/span> 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 <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: static;color:#009600;\" ><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 150, 0); font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative; background-color: transparent;\">text <\/span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 150, 0); font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative; background-color: transparent;\">messaging<\/span><\/span><span id=\"preLoadWrap1\" style=\"position: relative;\"> <\/span>plans to pay for the fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>In a mixup on T-<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: static;color:#009600;\" ><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 150, 0); font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative; background-color: transparent;\">mobile&#8217;s<\/span><\/span><span id=\"preLoadWrap2\" style=\"position: relative;\"> <\/span>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-<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: static;color:#009600;\" ><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 150, 0) ! important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; position: relative;\">Mobile<\/span><\/span> $27.55 to ship to Andes but thankfully T-Mobile honored their unlimited text messaging plan and credit the amount back to the user.<\/p>\n<p><span> The two were hoping to set a guiness record for the most texts in a month but it has yet to be confirmed by <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial;\" class=\"IL_LINK_STYLE\">Guiness World Records<\/span>. It&#8217;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&#8217;s unclear from the story if these were actual messages transaction or if it was a program that was able to spam the messages.<br \/>Source : news.softpedia<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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