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AT&T Announces FOX's "American Idol" Seventh Season Breaks All-Time Record for Text Messaging

2008-05-23 13:03:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
AT&T Records More Than 78 Million "American Idol"-Related Text Messages AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced that the company has shattered its text messaging record of 64.5 million by generating more than 78 million messages this season of "American Idol" the most popular show on television Since AT&T introduced text message voting in season 2 of...
 
 
 
 
 
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T-Mobile increases SMS text messaging rates - gives customers an out

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2008-07-01 20:38:53 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Remember all the hoopla that was stirred up by T-Mobile's increased SMS text message fees last year ? Right, well it looks like the cost of sending a text message outside of a bundled texting plan will increase from $0.15 cents to a more profitable $0.20 cents The pricing increase obviously won't be hitting those with unlimited texting plans...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wireless carriers gouging customers on SMS text message rates

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2008-01-23 21:00:58 by willpark in IntoMobile
The one thing that wireless operators love more than data revenue is SMS text message revenue. Data connections require more bandwidth than SMS text messages, which means that carriers make more money for less cost with text messages Carriers have been hiking-up the price of SMS text messages over the past year, and it seems that theyre just...
 
 
 
 
 
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Nokia Text Messenger: Windows Vista Gadget to View Latest SMS Text Messages from Nokia S60 on PC

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2008-02-20 21:06:38 by Abdul Aziz in Tech[dot]Blog
Nokia Beta Labs has released a new application for Windows Vista called Text Messenger that displays the latest SMS text messages from your Nokia S60 mobile device in your sidebar Nokia Text Messenger comes in two different sizes. If you want to place the application in your Windows Sidebar, you can opt for Nokia Text Messenger in a smaller...
 
 
 
 
 
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Mississippi class action lawsuit takes aim at US wireless carriers for SMS text messaging charges

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2008-05-20 19:39:26 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Any parent that's had their tween-to-teenaged child rack up stratospheric wireless bills knows intimately how expensive a few text messages can get. With a 160-character limit on every SMS text message, it can take more than a few text messages to express your thoughts - at 5 to 10 cents per message, those thoughts can get mighty pricey. And,...
 
 
 
 
 
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US mobile users break SMS text messaging record!

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2008-08-28 21:25:59 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Just how many SMS text messages do US wireless users go through each month, day, or hour? According to VeriSign , a veritable boatload - a technical term, to be sure The Mountain View, CA.-based company has announced that it ferried about 95.4 billion SMS text messages between wireless carriers in the 1H 2008. The volume of text messages set a...
 
 
 
 
 
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166 SMS text messages sent through O2s network on New Years Eve!

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2009-01-04 01:31:23 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Talk about a record! O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) has announced that their network ushered a record-setting 166 million SMS text messages over a 24 hour period that ended 7:30am on New Years Day (Jan. 1). That works out to a whopping 1,900 text messages sent every single second of the day The rush of wireless subscribers sending out celebratory Happy New...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bonus features in iPhone v1.1.3 - expanded SMS text message storage limit, better on-screen typing, karaoke mode

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2008-01-17 01:37:59 by willpark in IntoMobile
Aside from those reports of iPhones going bonkers following an update to the v1.1.3 firmware, it seems that the new firmware brings with it some previously unmentioned features - icing on the cake The previous firmware limited SMS text message storage to 1,000 messages. The limit wasnt too shabby, but when you send upwards of 20 SMS text...
 
 
 
 
 
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