Comments on: Teen sends 14,528 text messages, dad gets 440 page bill

By: biss

biss — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:20:25 +0000

make it 50 @sarah

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:52:45 +0000

14,528 .. What a freak!
I bet She'll become a 30 year old virgin, with no Social life.

By: Ras

Ras — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:18:52 +0000

http://www.webvipers.com/web/finance/
http://www.webvipers.com/web/travel/
http://www.webvipers.com/web/car/
http://www.webvipers.com/web/computer/
http://www.webvipers.com/web/shopping/
http://www.zoodl.com/581

By: Raisson

Raisson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:28:25 +0000

hm, i send about 10 sms a month and i hate it every time i have to send one. one of the most unergonomic inventions.

By: funkyjebus

funkyjebus — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:37:37 +0000

@58 – You might type amazingly fast, but if you can't read quicker you are a slow reader. Just a heads up, your spelling is fine, but you could have dyslexia. Might want to check it out.

P.s. Whats your point about reading through?? Did you have one?

By: Johney666

Johney666 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:55:21 +0000

Stupid spoiled c#nt! If she was my daughter I would have left her with a ped0 perv for a month.

By: bonecrushr78

bonecrushr78 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:06:08 +0000

i send more than that on average every month… I don't see how this is that big of a deal!

By: 000

000 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:37:36 +0000

geez, what's the problem, who here doesn't download like 1 or 2 TB per month of illegal stuffs, it's like the same thing but more stupid.

By: GAMIAS GR

GAMIAS GR — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:30:24 +0000

Agree 100% with #76 except for one thing..

There's no way in hell the average message length was that long.

Probably only a hundredth or thousandth that long.

So you are drastically understating how much of a rip off this really is.

I do see your logic though, by proving how crap this would be even if the messages were that big, there can be no doubt whatsoever that it is practically criminal to be charging this much for such small messages.

By: sanford40000

sanford40000 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:14:32 +0000

1st of all when u have a certain amount of text messages like 400 or whatever the cell company will tell u after 401 or whatever cause it won't go thru what a rip-off AT&T

By: Azu

Azu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:54:38 +0000

This entire article totals 1556 characters.

Assuming neither you or here were using multibyte encoding.. this article is 1556 bytes, and if he each of her messages were as long as this entire article..

(14,528*1556) bytes per month to kilobits per second =
0.0671571116 kilobits per second

Meaning that on a miniscule little 56k AOL line she could have easily sent

56/0.0671571116 = 833.865523 times as many messages.

In otherwords, for about $5 a month, you could send $2,905.60*833.865523 ($2,422,879.66) worth of text messages.

Something tells me that the cell phone companies are over charging for such a small amount of bandwidth!!

Over charging by around 5 and a half orders of magnitude.

That's quite a bit more messed up then a teenage girl saying something every 120 seconds, folks..

By: ABAS

ABAS — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:32:54 +0000

The girl is on steroid huh
please don't post these kinds of news i have no time to read all those those interesting comments up there!

By: bob

bob — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:28:42 +0000

I once had a dog, but it died…

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:15:03 +0000

Kinda scary since she's only like 12 or 13 or w/e …. how is she able to do anything in school or well anything else. He needs to take that phone away for about 3 yrs. so she can you know …. live. He texts a lot too but 30 isn't too bad since I can send about 20 myself a day but I have too much to do to be sending more than that a day. A text every 2 mins. for every hour of everyday is crazy.

By: poprocks2

poprocks2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:11:25 +0000

why is this all over the news online? who cares?