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Carriers Agree to Send Usage Alerts to Customers

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Lord Forbid....

patrickrlewis

Oct 17, 2011, 10:43 AM
the customers actually take responsibility for how they use their phones and are actually held accountable.
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mycool

Oct 17, 2011, 12:17 PM
patrickrlewis said:
the customers actually take responsibility for how they use their phones and are actually held accountable.


Do you know how annoying it is to check your minute usage and text/data usage every day? There is no harm in an "alert" being sent out as a warning.

Banks do this as well when your funds are running low... It's not that the individual isn't "taking responsibility". It's the push vs pull... rather than polling the service to see where you're at, why not just have the service push out an alert instead? This is actually more efficient on the system in terms if it means less people will be polling every day to see where they're at.

Then again, you could always use the service of...
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T Bone

Oct 17, 2011, 12:50 PM
"Do you know how annoying it is to check your minute usage and text/data usage every day? "

Do you know how annoying it is to have to wash your hands every time you go to the bathroom?

Do you know how annoying it is to have to wash the dishes every day?


At any rate, whoever said that one has to do it every day? Over time, you develop a sixth sense for how much time you've used every month, e.g. 450 minutes is equal to 7 1/2 hours, minus night and weekend and mobile to mobile....your phone already keeps track of how much time you are using, just reset the timer at the start of the month, and then when it starts to feel like it is getting close to 7 1/2 hours check your phone timer to see.

It doesn't require a huge investment of ...
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jvcmegabass

Oct 20, 2011, 11:06 AM
ok... why exactly did you need to say that? If you don't want the notifications, opt out of them, as im sure will be an option. Dont be an arse
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