Wouldn't you like to get a text from your cell phone provider when you are going over your minutes? Of course, you would.
Wouldn't you like to get a text from you bank in the event you overdraw your checking account? Of course, you would.
The technology is their for them to do that, but it's not being implemented.
I was on the phone with AT&T discussing my most recent phone bill. Come to find out, I went over my minutes last month by about 300 minutes. At $.45 cents a minute, my phone bill was about $140 more than usual.
It's not necessarily the end of the world by any means, but while I was talking with the customer service dude, I came up with an idea of having the amount of minutes I've used sent to my phone via a text in 100 minute increments. This way, I would be able to monitor my minutes used more effectively without playing a guessing game.
The dude said, "Yeah, I hear that idea about once a week."
So, I said, "Well, why don't they implement that system?" As soon as I asked I realized the answer to my question. AT&T is going KA-CHING right now.
The guy said you can send a text to *min and get your "used minutes" that way, but I quickly realized that would require the time and energy it takes to type *min, which for those who know me, know I'm pretty lazy, and if I believe there's a better way of doing something, I'm more inclined to just bitch about it until the world gets tired of hearing me bitch and decides to conform to my will.
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