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SMS Messaging Unreliable

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lot-of-misses dept.

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?"

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  1. This was sent from my phone... by psxndc · · Score: 4, Funny
    So if you're reading it, everything seems to be oC$%^#%^&&*^&*(#@

    psxndc

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  2. Lost messages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    7.5% of its text messages never reached their destinations
    Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is this report consistent with your experience?"


    No, I don't have SMS either, and I loose 100% of of the text messages sent to me.
  3. The zen of a lost SMS by nsample · · Score: 5, Funny


    If an SMS message is lost on the network, does it make a custom ringtone?

  4. Good lord, is this news? by seldolivaw · · Score: 4, Funny
    I didn't realise the USA was that far behind in mobile phone tech! Newsflash: SMS is unreliable, as the rest of the world has known for 5 or 6 years, which is how long we've been using SMS. To save you the trouble in another five years:

    Newsflash! Picture phones are low-quality!

  5. Re:Works Here by Kyeo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Exactly how far past 100% are you planning to go?

  6. Every message that I receive... by leastsquares · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...has reached it's destination. That's 100% of the messages I read. ;)

  7. FIRST POST! by Seehund · · Score: 4, Funny

    THIS FIRST POST SENT VIA SMS. NO PROBLEM, AS YOU ALL CAN SEE.

    blahblahblahLameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like SMSing.

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  8. Re:Never gotten a single spam... by sakeneko · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...maybe it's the $70+ fine per spam that does it (or the legal threat of that at least), but I've never recieved a single SPAM in Norway.

    I assume you mean on SMS. If you mean in email too, I'm moving to Norway, no matter how cold it is this time of year! ;P

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  9. Re:Works Here by wdr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same here. I can confirm I've gotten every email I've received.

    -Bill

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  10. Re:IN THE USA by Snarfy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have yet to see a lost SMS

    Of course you have yet to see a lost SMS. If you actually saw it, then it wouldn't be lost!

    Sorry, couldn't resist the lame joke...

  11. Re:Failure Rate by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know how popular it is in the US, but text messaging is big over here. People chat by text message about all sorts of things too trivial to ring someone about

    Don't worry, over here in the States nothing is too trivial to make a cell phone call about, especially when driving it seems.

  12. Predictable? by Ztream · · Score: 5, Funny

    You gotta love the SMS-stories on slashdot. All the Europeans go "What are you talking about? It works great, I use it all the time!" and all the Americans go "SMS, why would you want to use that?"

  13. Me, too! by kitzilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    > 7.5% of its text messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is this report consistent with your experience?

    Yes! I didn't receive these messages, either.

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