Hi Geekzone,

We have a friend over from the UK who is on Vodafone UK with an iPhone.  He's roaming over in NZ also on the Voadfone network.
I am on 2degrees but outside of their cells therefore also on the same Vodafone network really.

I send him a text message and he replies to it.
My message arrives 3 times on his phone and his reply never arrives on mine.
We try this again, my message gets to him, his never arrives at mine.
Third attempt, mine arrives on his phone, his reply does not get to me.

Is this normal, and should we expect this kind of hit rate?  Do other people not get text messages from abroad?
What happens to those text messages that simply never arrive?

Also, we can both call each other no problems so there's no issue with the numbers.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

p.s. I know I am on 2degrees so should maybe put this in another forum but most of this is going through Vodafones network.