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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. You Expected Better? by John+Hasler · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't have it either: I don't even have a cell phone. However, why would you expect reliability from a medium marketed for teenyboppers to use to exchange insults and love notes?

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  2. still better than by Archfeld · · Score: 1, Troll

    general public email delivery rate.

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    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?