I am Shane Becker

  1. My Text Message Usage Chart (on AT&T)

    Inspired by Neven Mrgan's post about how iOS's iMessages has affected his text message use, I looked into mine.

    The AT&T site does not make it easy to go find historical data of message use. They do provide a chart of data use, but not SMS/MMS use. What I had to do was go through each month's bill and find the values, put them in a text file, then create a chart. I used Keynote to bang out a quick and dirty chart. I've included the raw data in a table below.

    My Text Message Usage Chart (on AT&T) from 08/10 - 12/11

    My Text Message Usage Chart (on ATT)
    08/10 469
    09/10 941
    10/10 723
    11/10 464
    12/10 743
    01/11 820
    02/111032
    03/112128
    04/111042
    05/111490
    06/111758
    07/111518
    08/11 952
    09/11 929
    10/11 689
    11/11 612
    12/11 307

    Comma Separated Values

    So. When a few more of my friends A) get an iPhone 2) upgrade to iOS 5 and 3) turn on iMessages, I'll be able to turn off my text messaging package. Get to it, friends.