Telstra expecting over 53 million NYE text messages

01-02-2008, 07:10 AM

From
http://livenews.com.au/Articles/2007..._text_messages

More than 53 million text messages are expected to bring in the new year, up
to 8 million more than last year.

Telstra have boosted its network capacity as SMS, video calls, and picture
message traffic at an all time high.

Jeremy Mitchell from Telstra says as the clock strikes midnight everybody
will be able to send a message.

"We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't be
popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working to
make sure everyone's messages get through."

01-03-2008, 05:23 PM

Alan Parkington wrote...

> More than 53 million text messages are expected to bring in the new year, up
> to 8 million more than last year.

Not a bad earner, $13m in almost pure profit over a half hour period. Not a bad
gig if you can get it.

> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't be
> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working to
> make sure everyone's messages get through."

Yeah, SURE they will...

Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes get through
unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the original sender
gets that reply).

The message service thing must be the single biggest cash cow that any telco can
have. No guarantee of service, no refunds if it fails to work, something that
costs bugger all to deliver. Built on cheap technology that requires little
maintenance. Hence the guarantee of huge profits from this product line.

Like I said, nice gig if you can get it.

01-03-2008, 08:05 PM

Marts <marts_57@yahoo.com.au> wrote
> Alan Parkington wrote

>> More than 53 million text messages are expected to bring
>> in the new year, up to 8 million more than last year.

> Not a bad earner, $13m in almost pure profit over a half hour period.

It aint pure profit if you have to increase capacity to handle it, ****wit.

> Not a bad gig if you can get it.

>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who
>> won't be popping the champagne on the night because they will be
>> too busy working to make sure everyone's messages get through."

> Yeah, SURE they will...

> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their
> MMS/SMSes get through unless the recipients all respond
> with a reply (and that the original sender gets that reply).

Must be one of those rocket scientist union bludging ****wits.

> The message service thing must be the single biggest cash cow
> that any telco can have. No guarantee of service, no refunds if it
> fails to work, something that costs bugger all to deliver. Built on
> cheap technology that requires little maintenance. Hence the
> guarantee of huge profits from this product line.

No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use it, ****wit.

> Like I said, nice gig if you can get it.

01-05-2008, 04:33 PM

>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't be
>> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working
>> to
>> make sure everyone's messages get through."
>
> Yeah, SURE they will...

There are technicians on-call all night and staff monitoring traffic 24x7 in
the GOC

> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes get
> through
> unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the original
> sender
> gets that reply).

Whats your point? Thats SOP for text and MMS.

> The message service thing must be the single biggest cash cow that any
> telco can
> have. No guarantee of service, no refunds if it fails to work, something
> that

And it works almost all the time

01-05-2008, 04:33 PM

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5u5ijmF1g3737U1@mid.individual.net...
> Marts <marts_57@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>> Alan Parkington wrote
>
>>> More than 53 million text messages are expected to bring
>>> in the new year, up to 8 million more than last year.
>
>> Not a bad earner, $13m in almost pure profit over a half hour period.
>
> It aint pure profit if you have to increase capacity to handle it,
> ****wit.

good point

01-05-2008, 08:07 PM

"Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:WATfj.32255$CN4.25854@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't
>>> be
>>> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working
>>> to
>>> make sure everyone's messages get through."
>>
>> Yeah, SURE they will...
>
> There are technicians on-call all night and staff monitoring traffic 24x7
> in the GOC
>
>> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes get
>> through
>> unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the original
>> sender
>> gets that reply).
>
> Whats your point? Thats SOP for text and MMS.

Only in Australia.
Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no
charge.

--
Kwyj.

01-05-2008, 09:41 PM

Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote:
> "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:WATfj.32255$CN4.25854@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who
>>>> won't be
>>>> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy
>>>> working to
>>>> make sure everyone's messages get through."
>>>
>>> Yeah, SURE they will...
>>
>> There are technicians on-call all night and staff monitoring traffic
>> 24x7 in the GOC
>>
>>> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes
>>> get through
>>> unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the
>>> original sender
>>> gets that reply).
>>
>> Whats your point? Thats SOP for text and MMS.

> Only in Australia.

Nope, plenty of other places too.

> Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no charge.

You're always welcome to **** off there any time you like.

01-05-2008, 10:55 PM

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:41:55 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

>> Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no charge.
>
> You're always welcome to **** off there any time you like.

Vodafone once offered that service in Australia. (From memory, it was
originally free -- then increased to 5 cents per read receipt.)

Does Vodafone still offer this service?

01-05-2008, 11:07 PM

Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no charge.

>> You're always welcome to **** off there any time you like.

> Vodafone once offered that service in Australia. (From memory,
> it was originally free -- then increased to 5 cents per read receipt.)

> Does Vodafone still offer this service?

Dunno.

01-05-2008, 11:16 PM

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5ub106F1gubomU1@mid.individual.net...
> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote:
>
>> Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no
>> charge.
>
> You're always welcome to **** off there any time you like.

Why would I want to do that?

--
Kwyj.

01-06-2008, 01:50 AM

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:07:38 Kwyjibo may have written:
> Only in Australia.

Works here too. Telstra offer it (for a fee of course) and Voda used to
(don't know if they still do).

And who says you get billed for SMS that don't get delivered? My bills
with Optus over the years have often shown a 0c charge for x number of
SMSs that weren't delivered (recipient was out of range for longer than
the max. TTL for SMS on the network).

PD

--
Paul Day

01-07-2008, 02:18 AM

Paul Day wrote...

> And who says you get billed for SMS that don't get delivered? My bills

I've never had the patience or ever bothered to remember to check to see if
there were SMSes that were billed for zero cost.

Having said that when I first got my Samsung and was testing the MMS feature of
the phone, neither my daughter nor my sister were getting photos that I was
MMSing them. One's with 3, the other Optus. However, my wife on Telstra GSM
received them OK.

I still got billed for them.

01-07-2008, 02:18 AM

Kwyjibo wrote...

> >> Try travelling through Europe where you can get a 'read receipt' for no
> >> charge.
> >
> > You're always welcome to **** off there any time you like.
>
> Why would I want to do that?

It's the resident xenophobe's standard reply whenever it's pointed out that
there are countries that may do things a bit better than here in Oz.

Instead of taking such ideas on board, twats like him come up with such mindless
retorts.

01-07-2008, 02:18 AM

Michael wrote...

> > It aint pure profit if you have to increase capacity to handle it,
> > ****wit.
>
> good point

Stop parroting the troll. It's not a good look.

01-10-2008, 07:34 AM

"Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:WATfj.32255$CN4.25854@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't
>>> be
>>> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working
>>> to
>>> make sure everyone's messages get through."
>>
>> Yeah, SURE they will...
>
> There are technicians on-call all night

Buttinski in one hand and a Krone tool in the other, that'll help the
messages get through?

and staff monitoring traffic 24x7 in
> the GOC
>
>> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes get
>> through
>> unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the original
>> sender
>> gets that reply).
>
> Whats your point? Thats SOP for text and MMS.
>
>> The message service thing must be the single biggest cash cow that any
>> telco can
>> have. No guarantee of service, no refunds if it fails to work, something
>> that
>
> And it works almost all the time
>
>

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