Nick Andes & Doug Klinger: Andes & Klinger texting record
By Therese Lisieux on April 22nd, 2009Nick Andes and Doug Klinger wanted to try out for the Guinness Book Of World Records. Andes and Klinger sent 217,000 messages in March 2009. Andes and Klinger are from Lancaster, Philadelphia.
In 2005, Deepak Sharma, of India, sent a total of 182,000 text messages. That was the largest known number of messages sent by one person. There may be others but they are yet undiscovered so Andes and Klinger took that as a mark of comparison.
Andes and Klinger had cell phone subscription plans which gave them unlimited free text messages. When Andes was hit with a bill for $26,000, he contacted his phone service provider, T-Mobile. The company said they were investigating the charges and why the bill was sent. Klinger did not receive a bill for his texting.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Repressed gay love, no doubt about it. How the wife put up with it is beyond me…
April 24th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I can’t begin to imagine what it was like for that guy Nick Andes to get a $26K phone bill, especially if he actually had a comprehensive plan with unlimited texting. Talk about shock! I get particularly riled when people are stuck with huge, often erroneous cell bills; I hear about this all the time because I work for the consumer advocacy website http://www.fixmycellbill.com , powered by a company called Validas, where we slash the average cell bill by 22 percent (I’m not trying to blatantly plug, but it’s true). Consumers like Nick Andes may not have been actively misled by their wireless providers, but his example seems to illustrate that cell plans are clearly not impervious to problematic charging and subsequently many “unlimited” plans remain vulnerable to significant usage. I could go on and on about how shifty these cell companies can be in their attempts to make you overpay. I’ll mention that at Validas, we stop them and have currently put over $5,000,000 back in the pockets of consumers. You can check out Validas’s fixmycellbill.com in the national news media, seen recently on Good Morning America at http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6887412&page=1.
Good luck to everyone trying to cut your wireless expenses in this rough economy.
Dylan