Ode to Vodafone. Ode to Vodafone. Ode to Vodafone.

By on November 22, 2006 in News, Operators, Services

When I used Vodafone text messages arrived instantly or not at all. If someone sent me ONE text message, I received ONE text message.

At the moment, every time I receive a text with T-Mobile, I invariably get ONE message. Then 3 minutes later, I get a duplicate. And another. And another. Sometimes up to 5 or 6 texts, all the same. Total arse.

This means that if I’m conducting a conversation it can get mightily confusing. At the moment I’m training myself to remember where I am in my text conversations so that when I get that ‘ooooh a message’ feeling upon hearing the beep, I know not to bother looking, as it’s just a copy.

Do any network bods know what’s happening to me? Could it be the E61 handset? Or is it totally the held-together-with-string T-Mobile network?

Never ever had this problem on Vodafone. Granted, I was paying 12.5 pence a text.

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  • Jibran

    Look like a case of SMS C congestion that at times become damn annoying. Due to added traffic etc the SMS C at time ‘forgets’ that a message has already been sent.

    I doubt that this has anything to do with the handset. Get T-mobile support and they can check the text logs and make a correction if it aint too wide spread already :)

  • Jay Fenton

    I’ve had this too, although it happens pretty rarely for me (on an e61, not yet upgraded firmware, on T-Mobile).

  • http://www.itagg.com steve procter

    sounds like the cell has got a problem with setting the delivery status correctly. I’ve seen this sometimes and to be fair it can happen on all networks (but I guess some more than others). I remember asking Vodafone when it happened to me a few years ago and they pretty much said there was a failure in the mast. The message had come through several hundred times!! I turned off my phone, went home (to a different cell) and the problem disappeared.

    But these days I am starting to hear more good things about vodafone’s reach, speed and low failure rates (for text, calls and 3g coverage), whilst I hear more and more about t mobile having a lot of black holes around the country and regular blips of zero-coverage in what seem like quite dense areas that should have excellent coverage. Maybe it’s all hear-say but it does seem to consistantly favour vodafone over t mobile.

    steve procter

  • http://www.vermot-gauchy.com Laurent VERMOT-GAUCHY

    Ewan,
    you shoud use Crickee more often ;-)
    Stay tuned, in about a couple of weeks, something totally new would be usefull for you and all of your friends.
    Be ready to say goodbye to your old sms and hello to our new Crickee.
    Crickeely, LVG

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