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Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood
syrinje writes "The Times of India reported that Indian high-school seniors who took the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education sent more than a Million SMS messages within a 11 hour period to query the result database and receive detailed examination results. In addition making the results available to cellphone users, the CBSE has also published the results online at a dedicated web-site . Since the results were announced on the weekend, students would otherwise have had to wait for Monday to get their results from their schools. A spokesperson for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited , one of the operators involved in setting up the SMS result system estimated that they handled 100,000 messages per hour during the day on Sunday and said that "There was no problem in the network due to the heavy SMS traffic and we were able to give subjectwise marks to the students"."
I really want to be able to send myself SMS' when processes finish, but I don't want to have to subscribe to any service for the privilege.
Why can't all these damn nets be wide open, grr... (Don't answer that, I know the answer, I'm just being whiny.)
The last time I did this ('94/'95) it was with a modem and a dedicated 800-# calling into my cell provider, which I was lucky enough to wangle the use of, for free, by doing the legwork servicing of some of the POP's for a friend who worked at the cell-co, but things have changed a lot since then
*sigh* ah, for the days of UUCP, where men were men and nets weren't unless they were connected to someone else, freely and openly
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
You're picking nits that don't exist with this "nationalistic discrimination" distinction. "Nation" and "race" are not at all dissociated concepts in US society.
Are you adequate?
Sorry I couldn't resist. I'm still hoping to get modded "Informative" by the Slashdot Gods.
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