WOW. The most I've ever done is only 1000 and I thought that was a lot! Unfortunately, I didn't have unlimited text messaging back then because I don't think Cingular offered it yet (this awhile ago). I remember hardly anyone texted and their excuses were always "I prefer to call, texting is too expensive!" Now it's the opposite!
After the quake happened, I immediately tried calling my brother and sister, who have T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile, respectively. I have Boost/Nextel and I was also unable to get through to them for about 15 minutes. Whenever I called my brother, it said the network was busy or unavailable, and when I'd call my sister it sort of worked, but it was just silent, no ringing. I then called my house, I have Verizon for my home phone and the call went through perfectly. I was able to make and receive calls from my home phone as well.
After the calls, I remembered that I read or heard somewhere that text messaging is the best way to contact people in an emergency. I'm not sure if this is true, but I remember hearing that even if the text messaging also becomes congested, the networks que your texts, and send them out as soon as possible.
Again, I don't know if that's true, since my brother wasn't able to send texts for about an hour or two. I however was receiving and sending texts from friends with different carriers and they worked just fine.
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