if you don't use the network it goes into GPRS_IDLE mode and consumes a lot less energy. if you open a connection every 5 minutes you kind of destroy that.
as BB has the push infrastructure it would be a good approach to leverage this advantage, for example by writing a nagios plugin that alerts the BB, with the addition of a pull status by request.
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