Oh.. Well doesn't that just stink

[Vyk]

Yeah.... that one you should get reimbursed for. I dunno how it works for their service but on Verizon there's a primary phone and the other phones share the plan of that phone. So that mistake can't happen

One of you would have an account. And both phones would be under that account. One number being the primary. The other being activated off that. Have to give them texting individually. But at least the plan rate doesn't suffer any wonky retardedness

[Avarice-ness]

Yeah.... that one you should get reimbursed for. I dunno how it works for their service but on Verizon there's a primary phone and the other phones share the plan of that phone. So that mistake can't happen

One of you would have an account. And both phones would be under that account. One number being the primary. The other being activated off that. Have to give them texting individually. But at least the plan rate doesn't suffer any wonky retardedness

Yeah see, with cingular it just says there's two phones on the account. It doesn't say primary or anything like that, I can log into the account using his number and info and mess with things on MY phone even though MY phone is technically the "primary" one.

I understand having like 2 phones under one joined-account if this were like a business account and something, for the family talk, it says "Number of phones in Group: 1" because.. the only phone covered by the family plan share thing is his phone. I'd think that they really should have caught that when they were putting the plan together because it should say "2".

I think I'd be happier if the bill was still 1000$ and it was because that I forgot to add the texting to his, but when I find out that we're on two completely seperate plans and we're paying 10+ bucks more for a plan that we can't even take full advantage of because there's no other phone to share the minutes and such with.. that's what really got to me.

[Captain Maxx Power]

How in the buggering hell are you people building up so many charges? Let me do some basic math;

Each text sent costs approximately $0.15 to £$0.30 according to DMKA. We'll average that to about $0.25 for the sake of argument. To achieve a bill of $1,016.84, you would need to send around about 4067 texts in total. Assuming that each text may take around about 30 seconds to a minute to write out (and that's my being generous), that's over 183015 seconds per month being spent texting. In a slightly less crit-inducing format that's around about 50 hours straight, or two consecutive days a month, spent doing nothing else but texting.

I mean what the HELL man?

[DMKA]

How in the buggering hell are you people building up so many charges? Let me do some basic math;

Each text sent costs approximately $0.15 to £$0.30 according to DMKA. We'll average that to about $0.25 for the sake of argument. To achieve a bill of $1,016.84, you would need to send around about 4067 texts in total. Assuming that each text may take around about 30 seconds to a minute to write out (and that's my being generous), that's over 183015 seconds per month being spent texting. In a slightly less crit-inducing format that's around about 50 hours straight, or two consecutive days a month, spent doing nothing else but texting.

I mean what the HELL man?

I used to work for T-Mobile and there'd be angry mothers calling in because their fifteen year old daughter sent 10,000+ text messages and they had no text message package. Trust me, it's really not that hard to do. You also have to keep in mind that it's received as well as sent that you get charged for.

Luckily with T-Mobile, if your billing cycle hasn't ended, you can just add on the bundle and they'll retrodate it at that point so it's all covered. I don't believe AT&T/Cingular will do that, and I know my carrier (US Cellular) won't.

[Momiji]

How in the buggering hell are you people building up so many charges? Let me do some basic math;

Each text sent costs approximately $0.15 to £$0.30 according to DMKA. We'll average that to about $0.25 for the sake of argument. To achieve a bill of $1,016.84, you would need to send around about 4067 texts in total. Assuming that each text may take around about 30 seconds to a minute to write out (and that's my being generous), that's over 183015 seconds per month being spent texting. In a slightly less crit-inducing format that's around about 50 hours straight, or two consecutive days a month, spent doing nothing else but texting.

I mean what the HELL man?

I used to work for T-Mobile and there'd be angry mothers calling in because their fifteen year old daughter sent 10,000+ text messages and they had no text message package. Trust me, it's really not that hard to do. You also have to keep in mind that it's received as well as sent that you get charged for.

That's easily summed up by:

[Aerith's Knight]

Holy bat sh!t, how did you get a phone bill for 1000 bucks? Forgot to turn off the phone after a sex line? 0_o

[Blue Harvest]

If I got a bill that huge I'd never be able to pay it. I can just about afford £35-£50 a month.

[Loony BoB]

Prepay phones ftw.

[Vyk]

How in the buggering hell are you people building up so many charges? Let me do some basic math;

Each text sent costs approximately $0.15 to £$0.30 according to DMKA. We'll average that to about $0.25 for the sake of argument. To achieve a bill of $1,016.84, you would need to send around about 4067 texts in total. Assuming that each text may take around about 30 seconds to a minute to write out (and that's my being generous), that's over 183015 seconds per month being spent texting. In a slightly less crit-inducing format that's around about 50 hours straight, or two consecutive days a month, spent doing nothing else but texting.

I mean what the HELL man?

I used to work for T-Mobile and there'd be angry mothers calling in because their fifteen year old daughter sent 10,000+ text messages and they had no text message package. Trust me, it's really not that hard to do. You also have to keep in mind that it's received as well as sent that you get charged for.

Yeah so its actually only about 2,000 texts per person. If they each continually reply to each other. And they estimated about 400 a week? So that'd be 800 counting replies. That'd take about 2 and a half weeks at that rate. Which is probably how it happened. Fifty hours isn't hard to spread out over the course of three weeks

[Avarice-ness]

How in the buggering hell are you people building up so many charges? Let me do some basic math;

Each text sent costs approximately $0.15 to £$0.30 according to DMKA. We'll average that to about $0.25 for the sake of argument. To achieve a bill of $1,016.84, you would need to send around about 4067 texts in total. Assuming that each text may take around about 30 seconds to a minute to write out (and that's my being generous), that's over 183015 seconds per month being spent texting. In a slightly less crit-inducing format that's around about 50 hours straight, or two consecutive days a month, spent doing nothing else but texting.

I mean what the HELL man?

I used to work for T-Mobile and there'd be angry mothers calling in because their fifteen year old daughter sent 10,000+ text messages and they had no text message package. Trust me, it's really not that hard to do. You also have to keep in mind that it's received as well as sent that you get charged for.

Yeah so its actually only about 2,000 texts per person. If they each continually reply to each other. And they estimated about 400 a week? So that'd be 800 counting replies. That'd take about 2 and a half weeks at that rate. Which is probably how it happened. Fifty hours isn't hard to spread out over the course of three weeks

Yep! The texting itself was 829.85$. The rest of the bill is actual phone plans and taxes and stuff. (Wisconsin state surcharge 44$? EVIL!)

Texts Incoming: 2,263 at .20 each = 452.60
Texts Outgoing: 1,179 at .20 each = 355.80
Multimedia messaging (in and outgoing): 49 at .30 each = 14.70
Internet pay as you go: 675KB at .01perKB = 6.75

Serious business right there. e e

[Zeldy]

I don't understand how people can text/ring so much. Back in the days when I had a phone (it got lost on a drunken night out) I only ever had 9p on it and that seemed to do me fine. I'm now back to being phone-less, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I have better things to spend my money on.

[Lukren]

So I found out what my lovely cell phone bill will be!

1,016.84$! =D! >=/

When I went to get my husbands phone added to my plan and what not, I told the Cingular guy to take unlimited texting off. Well, when I gave Bruce the phone, I checked on the phone internets to see what our plan was and according to that it says (and still says to this date) that we have unlimited. So as most people would assume, we still have unlimited.

I'm hoping to god that our paper bill comes in and says it's unlimited but then shows charges for the texts so I can fight it because, damn that's lots of money.
I do accept that if it doesn't say unlimited and we got charged, that's our own fault for believing a clearly not updated plan thingy on the internets.

So, what has happened to you recently to make you just go "Man.. that just sucks"? Or "Man.. I knew it. =/" in a not so happy way?
Did you have this feeling that you would fail a test and then really hope you'd pass it then find out you failed?
Talk about times like these! Everyone has one!

So I'm guessing you text alot or something? Seriously thats alota monay.

[Vyk]

It happens more in relationships than anything. I'm a textaholic but I only have like .... one person I text anymore, and he has the same carrier so he's free. But the times that I was in a relationship with other textaholics, I could easily blow thousands of texts a month. Especially if they had textaholic friends. People that care about each other like to keep in touch. And texting is easier than talking half the time, especially for randomness, 'cause its less invasive. You can read it and reply at your leisure if you're doing something

[Avarice-ness]

It happens more in relationships than anything. I'm a textaholic but I only have like .... one person I text anymore, and he has the same carrier so he's free. But the times that I was in a relationship with other textaholics, I could easily blow thousands of texts a month. Especially if they had textaholic friends. People that care about each other like to keep in touch. And texting is easier than talking half the time, especially for randomness, 'cause its less invasive. You can read it and reply at your leisure if you're doing something

xD Yep. My husband doesn't always get the chance to call because he's at school in the army so for the most part he gets away with Texting. Sometimes he'd text me after PT (at like 4am) just to say he loves me even if I'm not awake, so yeah texting goes fast. Saddly though, Cingular doesn't have the whole mobile to mobile texting deal, only mobile to mobile calling.