She's not just sending text, she's getting updates for twitter. If she has two dozen friends she's watching, that could be hundreds and hundreds a day alone there.
I also think, I'm not sure, but by law the telcos have to give you the option of a paper bill. AT$T lets you go all digital though if you choose. Mike On 8/20/07, Rev. Stewart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been a Verizon customer for many ears now and with 4 phones > two teenagers I have never gotten a bill that had to be boxed. > > My oldest is at college and he uses his phone as a landline > phone. He text messages with the best of them. I have had to pay > overages for both text and phone service, but never have they > detailed all the text messages. (nor do they detail data, just totals.) > > They do detail all phone calls. > > You are right Tom they (AT&T) blew it. But what do you expect for a baby > bell! > > Stewart > > > > At 10:25 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote: > >While it is distressing to think of someone sending 1,000 text messages a > >day, it is even more distressing to have a supposed technology company -- > >AT&T -- be so ignorant about how the technology they sell is used. Apple > >handed AT&T the future and AT&T didn't know what to do with it. I think > >this is what is causing the amusement over the fat bills and is yet > >another example of why legislating oligopolies is bad management. > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Prince of Peace > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
