So reckons Scott M. Fulton of BetaNews.
If Sprint’s early estimates are accurate and if they’re reflective of other carriers’ traffic on the day Sen. Barack Obama announced his running mate, the resulting flow of text message traffic on the nation’s networks could theoretically have generated more than $118 million in extra revenue for the nation’s cell phone carriers.
His maths are sound — on the basis that people are being charged for their texts.? If you’re sat around on an unlimited plan then there’s limited additional revenue for the operators.
Whoopy-doo.
News story casuses people to communicate with each other. Who'd have thought?
Are we going to have a similar story with laughable figures (see update on the original post where they've backed down on their numbers) for every big news story?
I'm sure that if you compared the traffic spike after say a terrorist attack or natural dissaster then it'd be orders of magnitude bigger than Obama's text – are we going to see “Tsunami makes Sprint $xxxm” headlines?
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Whoopy-doo.
News story casuses people to communicate with each other. Who'd have thought?
Are we going to have a similar story with laughable figures (see update on the original post where they've backed down on their numbers) for every big news story?
I'm sure that if you compared the traffic spike after say a terrorist attack or natural dissaster then it'd be orders of magnitude bigger than Obama's text – are we going to see “Tsunami makes Sprint $xxxm” headlines?
approve
2008/8/27 Disqus <>
Whoopy-doo.
News story casuses people to communicate with each other. Who'd have thought?
Are we going to have a similar story with laughable figures (see update on the original post where they've backed down on their numbers) for every big news story?
I'm sure that if you compared the traffic spike after say a terrorist attack or natural dissaster then it'd be orders of magnitude bigger than Obama's text – are we going to see “Tsunami makes Sprint $xxxm” headlines?
approve
2008/8/27 Disqus <>