Just sitting at my desk here, my phone went off and a txt was received, had a look and is was call 707 to hear one new voice message.  Message was left 5min ago, then a second txt immediately comes in after from a friend of mine, something completely unrelated which has been sent about 10min previous.  The phone has full reception.  Now question is why does this happen?  The other night the same thing happened, only they were all txts that came flooding in from someone who had txt me 5 times over a period of about 15mins, and kept txting because I wasn't replying, I wasn't replying because I hadn't received them.  Not to mention other times when im else where away from home, similar things happen, I can be at a customers house and receive a txt saying I missed a call from +649XXXXXXX call blah blah to hear more info on this free service, again full or close to full reception and this happens.  This has always happened now and then, and is usually a rare occurrence for me, but lately its been happening quite a bit, the question is why?  Its vital I am able to answer my calls as thats how I receive work, if I don't answer I simply miss out on work and or people leave messages I have to clear.

I used to carry a second telecom phone around at one stage, and had my Vodafone 021 diverted to the 027 number if phone was off or out of coverage, it works fine but chewed into my anytime national minutes a little.  Looks like I will have to pull out the telecom phone again and carry it around, as I cannot afford to miss calls.  When I was solely with telecom years and years ago this never used to happen, so why with Vodafone?  Please don't tell me its my phone, I have been through countless numbers of phones and get the same problem.