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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?"

3 of 544 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. 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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  3. 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?"