Why do mobile companies keep sending text messages to inform you of your traffic usage?

Operators now send traffic usage to. Do you know why? Because in the early days of 3G/G4, many users misused their own traffic, including some bad apps, which automatically uploaded and downloaded data in the background. However, at that time, due to the lack of such a similar traffic notification function, many users finally got traffic beyond the chart without knowing it. And our users never think they are wrong, and they don't want to pay for the traffic of this broken chart, so they basically complain the first time, the second time and the third time.

Generally speaking, when your traffic suddenly increases greatly, or when your traffic is running out, Mobile will send you a short message to remind you. But more is the software setting similar to the traffic manager in your mobile phone, which makes you frequently reminded of the traffic usage of operators. According to the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, when the user's phone bill is used abnormally, the operator has the obligation to remind him, and this reminder is sometimes a SMS reminder.

However, this reminder is more of a comprehensive phone bill expenditure than a traffic expenditure, because there may not be many people who receive text messages. The services handled by operators are now packages. When the traffic in the package is about to run out, the operator will send a text message to remind the user. However, because the operator's traffic charging can only be completed once when the user starts surfing the Internet and ends surfing the Internet, that is to say, if the user continues surfing the Internet without stopping surfing the Internet, the operator cannot charge in real time, which may lead to the delay of traffic reminder SMS.

In addition, if it is the peak time of SMS sending, the SMS itself may be delayed, and this reminder may sometimes be delayed. Various APPs are installed in our mobile phones, such as the Traffic Manager app, which can monitor the usage of traffic in real time, and the calibration frequency can be set to day level, month level or other time levels. Some software may be calibrated frequently when the traffic is running out. These apps themselves will apply for SMS function and get the latest information of traffic by sending corresponding SMS to operators.