SMS Messaging Unreliable

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?"

This was sent from my phone...

[psxndc]

So if you're reading it, everything seems to be oC$%^#%^&&*^&*(#@

psxndc

Lost messages

[Anonymous Coward]

7.5% of its text messages never reached their destinations

Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is this report consistent with your experience?"

No, I don't have SMS either, and I loose 100% of of the text messages sent to me.

The zen of a lost SMS

[nsample]

If an SMS message is lost on the network, does it make a custom ringtone?

I know...

[Zildy]

7.5% of 26000 seems about right, according to my logs...

By the way...

- Bob, your wife wants you to get a gallon of milk on your way home

- John, the big proposal was a huge success with the suits

- Mary, wear the pretty satin thing for the concert tonight

- Bill, something about K-Y and a bullwhip...ew...

Good lord, is this news?

[seldolivaw]

I didn't realise the USA was that far behind in mobile phone tech! Newsflash: SMS is unreliable, as the rest of the world has known for 5 or 6 years, which is how long we've been using SMS. To save you the trouble in another five years:

Newsflash! Picture phones are low-quality!

Re:Works Here

[Kyeo]

Exactly how far past 100% are you planning to go?

Every message that I receive...

[leastsquares]

...has reached it's destination. That's 100% of the messages I read. ;)

FIRST POST!

[Seehund]

THIS FIRST POST SENT VIA SMS. NO PROBLEM, AS YOU ALL CAN SEE.

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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like SMSing.

Re:Never gotten a single spam...

[sakeneko]

...maybe it's the $70+ fine per spam that does it (or the legal threat of that at least), but I've never recieved a single SPAM in Norway.

I assume you mean on SMS. If you mean in email too, I'm moving to Norway, no matter how cold it is this time of year! ;P

Re:Works Here

[wdr1]

Same here. I can confirm I've gotten every email I've received.

-Bill

Re:IN THE USA

[Snarfy]

I have yet to see a lost SMS

Of course you have yet to see a lost SMS. If you actually saw it, then it wouldn't be lost!

Sorry, couldn't resist the lame joke...

Re:Failure Rate

[MalleusEBHC]

I don't know how popular it is in the US, but text messaging is big over here. People chat by text message about all sorts of things too trivial to ring someone about

Don't worry, over here in the States nothing is too trivial to make a cell phone call about, especially when driving it seems.

Predictable?

[Ztream]

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?"

Me, too!

[kitzilla]

> 7.5% of its text messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is this report consistent with your experience?

Yes! I didn't receive these messages, either.