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SMS Messaging Unreliable
Lovejoy writes "From a Reuters story: Keynote announced today that in its two-week, 26,000 message test-period 7.5% of its text messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is this report consistent with your experience?"
SMS was bought by Siemens years ago.
Evolution? Doesn't that imply better? I would not say SMS is the evolution of AIM/ICQ, but rather that it is a cheap hack to get a crappy version of it to work on a phone.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Think of SMS like email. People care, or they wouldn't be using the service in the first place.
Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
SMS costs less than a voice mail, is sent quickly and at your leisure, and you don't always need/want to speak to the person for certain things (just like email, right?)
It's bad enough when you have to carry a pager for work
SMS has pretty much replaced pagers around here. Why get a stupid pager when you can get a pager + phone as a single device.
voluntarily subjecting yourself to that kind of intrusion strikes me as nuts.
What kind of rubbish is that. If you don't like or want to be disturbed, don't buy the phone in the first place. Or switch it off when it's inconvenient.
In addition, dishonest marketers and at least some cell service providers are using SMS to send unwanted bulk marketing messages
I feel sorry for my american peers.. We have no SMS spam problems in Europe. Please, don't assume that we do, because your assumptions would be wrong. And people have to get your cellphone number before they can SMS you, which they can't.
AT&T, my cell phone service provider, is apparently one of those.
That's too bad, for you and for their other customers. There are certainly better operators out there, who provide excellent service, and keep their customers at peace !
After I read complaints from a number of AT&T users who had been SMS-spammed and who said that AT&T refused to stop,
Sue them ! In the USA everyone is free to sue everybody else for any reason, right ? Use that right.
Don't assume that each new "feature" offered by your cell phone provider (or your ISP) is something you want.
First of all you don't HAVE to use the features. Then, don't assume that everybody out there has crap service, because if you knew how good it gets in some places it would make yourself want to try it ! (and you might even like it....)
-forged