Two Americans sent 217,000 SMS.

Tap, tap, only - as have two Americans March spent an SMS record. They sent 217,000 messages, the telephone company, then a thick bill. And the entry in the Guinness book is both not secure.

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) is an SMS-known talent, and often like to send short messages. With two Americans, the head of government but certainly not keep up. The 29-year-old Nick Andes and the 30-year-old Doug Klinger from Lancer in Philadelphia to create it, on peak days is more than 6000 messages via mobile phone given.

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Quick Tip: Most cell phone users can SMS the letter is not with Nick Andes and Doug Klinger keep from Lancer.

To boredom no room in their lives to let the two have been friends of the common high-school SMSer. In March they wanted from their everyday Tipper erupt and a permanent record in the SMS-up letter. The result sent 217,000 text messages, 140,000 of Andes' mobile phones, about half as many of Klinger.

Whether at the world record for the two ranges, is unclear. 2005, Deepak Sharma in India 182,000 SMS in one month have sent - but alone. Record-breaking, however, fell from the invoice, which T-Mobile sent Andes. More than $ 26,000 require the mobile operators of the 30-year-olds, the time when sending SMS to its flat rate had left.

The bill came in one package. With the postage this was according to U.S. media reports, $ 27. Because T-Mobile accurately detailing all the individual connections on - the stack of paper will be as thick as two phone books have been.

Unknown Limit

After an initial shock, there is a relaxed Andes and hopes for the cooperation extended by T-Mobile. The company had already assured him that he had the high bill should not settle. An explanation of why in the first amount of giants was asked, he also has at hand.

As the Andes regional television station WSB-TV said that T-Mobile informing him that the flat rate for technical reasons to 100,000 SMS per month, limited. This limit was never a problem, because so far no such customer schreibwütig was. According to a report from the Intelligencer Journal Lancer've Andes promise of mobile phone company have such a mass-mailing is not repeated. T-Mobile announced at the request of the AP news agency that the operation will be reviewed.

A tip to reduce the number of SMS sent in the amount of driving, they have. During the record attempt was limited Andes and Klinger to mini-messages like "Hello" or "lol", the abbreviation for laughing out loud. At the same time, they used techniques to up to 45 SMS at the same time to sell. One problem, however, the incoming messages. In short intervals, the two had their Inbox folder empty, since the mobile phone memory was full. To read the received messages and then remained generally no more time.

Whether an entry in the Guinness Book or not - Andes' wife is happy that the record attempt is complete. A month long had her husband during the day doing nothing more than to his mobile phone to type. "They had enough after a few days like this," admits Andes.