[Cialug] Commerical Interruption

[Josh More]

Are you charged per text on the ISP side?  I always thought that was a bit of a scam on the consumer side


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Weis [djweis at internetsolver.com]
Received: Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 3:10pm
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' [cialug at cialug.org]
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption



10,000 texts in a month? I'll pay you not to sign up for my service :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Afan Pasalic
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:46 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption
>
> I went to t-mobile website to check exact number of text
> messages my older kid was sending and found glitch on
> t-mobile website. on EVERY online statement, but the last
> one, my kid had 6965 txt messages, younger one 42 and I had
> 132 messages. I checked last 5 months and on ALL of them are
> the same numbers :-). coincidence? I don't think so...
> after I call them I found my kid had in july almost 10,846
> messages, in august a little bit over 5K, in september
> "famous" 6965 messages and in october "only" 3148 (he broke
> up with his girlfriend :D) means, 1,000 txt msgs you offer
> are WAY below what I need :) I'll give you a call once I kick
> him out of my house. :)
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
>
> >
> > If anyone is interested in the stats so far, the average
> minute usage
> > per phone is 350, average texts per phone is 360, and the
> average data
> > usage per phone is 291 megs. If you exclude the non data users, the
> > average usage per phone is 621 megs per month. The average cost per
> > telephone is $45.
> >
> > If we offered something in the range of 500 minutes, 500
> text, and 500
> > megs for $50 and 1000 minutes, 1000 text, and 1000 megs for
> $75, would
> > that be appealing?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --
> > Dave Weis
> > 515-224-9229
> > djweis at internetsolver.com
> > http://www.internetsolver.com/
> > Please check out our Complete Support Service
> > http://www.internetsolver.com/completesupport/
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> >> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:05 PM
> >> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> >> Subject: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry for the non-Linux related question but I would greatly
> >> appreciate everyone's input on a new product we are working on -
> >> wireless telephone service. I need to gather a couple bits
> of data to
> >> get a better idea of pricing and plans that people have.
> If you could
> >> reply offlist with the following questions I would greatly
> appreciate
> >> it:
> >>
> >> * Carrier
> >> * Number of phones on plan
> >> * Monthly Cost
> >> * Minutes Used per Month
> >> * Texts Used per Month
> >> * KB/MB Used per Month
> >>
> >> If you don't know all of the questions just let me know
> the ones you
> >> do know.
> >>
> >> I'm going to be looking for some testers in a month or two
> that will
> >> be the first people on Internet Solver Wireless. If you have any
> >> other questions, let me know.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dave Weis
> >> 515-224-9229
> >> djweis at internetsolver.com
> >> http://www.internetsolver.com/
> >> Please check out our Complete Support Service
> >> http://www.internetsolver.com/completesupport/
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