The Associated Press is reporting that two friends in Pennsylvania exchanged 217,000 SMS messages, resulting in an itemized bill for $26,000 for one, despite both of them subscribing to unlimited texting plans.
T-Mobile waived the charges while it is investigating.
You have to wonder what else the two, 29 and 30 years old, had time to do in March. Perhaps they are unemployed as a result of the economy: alternatively, they are about to be unemployed when their bosses realize that they weren’t focussed on work for the last month!
Before you try to break their new record, check to see if your service provider’s terms of service has any asterisks beside the word “unlimited”.