[Cialug] Commerical Interruption

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

I'm thinking something isn't right with the number.  If you were awake 18 hours a day for 30 days you'd have to send 20 texts and hour every hour to accomplish that.  That just doesn't seem to pass the sniff test.

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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 3:11 PM
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Commerical Interruption


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

-- 
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 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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