Exactly. Anybody remember the way Blackberry handled this before proper push messaging? The data connection was completely dead, they just got the mobile compa

Exactly. Anybody remember the way Blackberry handled this before proper push messaging? The data connection was completely dead, they just got the mobile companies themselves to do it over the phone call connection (SMS?) to indicate when there was something to read at which point the data layer came up. Really efficient in those days, except you obviously paid a fee for 'Blackberry service'