Vodafone Missing Texts

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Robz

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#17211 17-Nov-2007 07:51

I did not received at least 6 texts yesterday between 8am and 6pm. I am with Vodafone and the texts were sent from the Teelecom network from three different numbers. I did receive texts from the Vodafone network during this time. Does anyone else know if they have had the same issue?

johnr

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#95621 17-Nov-2007 07:58

There was a outage yesterday on the gateway that interconnects vodafone and telecoms sms.

Robz

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#95635 17-Nov-2007 09:27

Thanks John....

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#95645 17-Nov-2007 09:54

I've had problems too but it only occured when my phone was in 3g mode, I called vodafone and they said there is a known problem with the network

johnr

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#95654 17-Nov-2007 11:41

It was not a fault on any network telecom or vodafone. Just the gateway in between. It was not 2/3G related.

nate

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#95813 18-Nov-2007 21:45

Robz:
I did not received at least 6 texts yesterday between 8am and 6pm. I am with Vodafone and the texts were sent from the Teelecom network from three different numbers. I did receive texts from the Vodafone network during this time. Does anyone else know if they have had the same issue?

My partner used to be Telecom and I am Vodafone. We'd often send messages to each other that would sometimes take hours to send.

Moved her over to Vodafone, haven't had issues since.

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#95824 18-Nov-2007 22:55

Did the messages ever come through? I need to check two GSM sms gateways. Cheers.

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#95838 19-Nov-2007 02:01

paradoxsm: Did the messages ever come through? I need to check two GSM sms gateways. Cheers.

In all fairness, it was never consistent. Sometimes we'd go weeks with no issues, then sitting right next to each other, a txt would take hours to send through. I'd sometimes receive txt messages late at night that had been sent during the day.

For anything important, I'd suggest staying Vodafone-Vodafone or Telecom-Telecom.

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Robz

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#95842 19-Nov-2007 06:26

paradoxsm: Did the messages ever come through? I need to check two GSM sms gateways. Cheers.

No - I did not get any of the texts. I have not had a problem since about 6 pm Friday. After that all has been good.

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#96172 21-Nov-2007 08:58

Anyone else still having this problem? Last nite i was sending txts to people in the same room as me on 027, some would go through some wouldnt, it was completly intermitent.. One person still hasnt received the messages, another got them at 3 am, while another person got one straight away but not hasnt seen the other message. Where as 021 txts were being sent without a problem!

Robz

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#96177 21-Nov-2007 09:17

It is difficult to know if the problem exists. I got a text from an 027 number at 6.24 last night and have not recieved anymore since. However I am not expecting any and no one has grumbled about sending me a text and me not responding... yet.....

mobygeek

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#96179 21-Nov-2007 09:21

Moral of the story? Don't rely on text for anything important? We have people come in with dead phones and want their text messages out for court cases! (Der...)