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Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills

Posted by kdawson on from the time-for-the-unlimited-plan dept.

theodp writes "Last month, Washington high school junior Sofia Rubenstein used 6,807 text messages, which, at a rate of 15 cents apiece for most of them, pushed her family's Verizon Wireless bill over $1,100. She and other teens are finding themselves in hot water after their families get blindsided with huge phone bills thanks to hefty a la carte text messaging charges." Use of SMS in the US doubled from 2005 to 2006.

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  1. Doing the math by coyote_oww · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Assuming a 16 hour waking day, this girl is texting every 4.2 minutes, 7 days a week. No time for homework, or exercise, or driving around, or work, that's for sure. You gotta wonder - is she obese, from no exercise, or anorexic, from no time to eat? Or can you eat and text at the same time?? Maybe she's just ambidexterous.