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Obama’s VP text = an extra $118m for US operators?

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

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’ ... Continue reading »

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  • Chris

    10 months ago

    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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  • Ewan

    10 months ago

    approve

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