Dear other phone companies, why can't you do something as simply awesome as this?

[andrewducker]

After every phone call I make I get a popup message that looks like this:


Which tells me exactly how many of my monthly minutes I have left. I assume it travels over some part of the GSM back-channel.

Now, why on earth don't other phone companies do this?

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I have an app I can tap to check that I keep on my homescreen, which I occasionally look at. I guess alerts like the one above would be useful, if you had a number of minutes low enough that you might go over. Personally, I have 2000 minutes, 5000 texts and infinite data so the alerts would be more annoying than helpful in my case.

[andrewducker]

I'm paying £10/month for 250 minutes (because that's about what I use)/unlimited texts/unlimited data. I agree that if I had thousands of minutes I wouldn't want to be reminded all the time!