ISIS Hit With Massive Wireless Bill After Sending 'Message To America'
TIKRIT, Iraq — The Islamic State is rethinking its mobile carrier today, after sending a message to America that wound up costing it $73 million in overage charges on its wireless plan, Duffel Blog has learned.
“We thought we had unlimited messages,” said spokesman Abu Muhammad al-'Adnani. “But it turns out, the infidels at Virgin Mobile don’t really mean unlimited when they say it. There is a million message limit buried in the so-called ‘fine print.’ A thousand curses on you, Mr. Branson! This is total zift.”
“I will write some fine print on them with my weapon, Insh’Allah!” he added.
According to sources, the Islamic State’s message consisted of "really scary" emoji and the hashtag "#MessagetoAmerica."
The SMS text to the nearly 300 million smart phones registered in the U.S. have resulted in a penalty rate of $0.25/message over the one million contractually allowed. This led to a massive fee due to Virgin Mobile of $72,863,713.67, of which more than $1 million is a “universal connecti…
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