Last week, Maxis (Hotlink) launched a new promotion under its Hotlink Reward Plan. They called it the Maniac Monday. That promotion is opened to all Hotlink (Maxis 012/017 Prepaid User) users to send 1000 SMS for only RM1.00.

It is only valid every Monday in the month of May 2006. This is indeed a great news for all SMS-freaks, or rather SMS users as they can now SMS for almost FREE~!

But the service provider didnt expect that when 6 million users use the Maniac Monday service and send one or two SMS(es) at one time... it would be chaos! Guess what? last Monday, the SMS server of the service provider really jammed up! I can even send one sms and sms sent by my friends only arrived after 10 - 15 minutes!

Well, im not an expert in telecommunication industry or whatsoever but it's common sense! When you have too much traffic at one time -> traffic jam! what if there is an emergency and the victim cant get through the line because it was jammed up by a SMS promotion?

Tomorrow will be the second Monday of May 2006 and Maniac Monday is up again. Guess what will happen then... Just my 2 cents... you can comment too by clicking on the comment button down there...