How was your New Year’s Eve SMS experience?

By on January 1, 2007 in Services

The mobile operators still, collectively, can’t get it right.

Stupid.

I got one text message 17 times from 3am – 5am from a friend in Sydney.

Gahhh.

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  • http://siddharthatwork.livejournal.com Siddharth Thakkar

    Hi Ewan,

    Wishing you a Happy New Year. Hope 2007 is a wonderful year for you.

    I use Airtel (http://www.airtel.in) in India and I had no problems whatsoever with their SMS service even at the stroke of midnight. Even delivery reports were working absolutely fine. Yes, browsing on my BlackBerry was a bit slower, but that’s it. People who messaged me at 12:01 and 12:05 a.m. (I asked them if they got delivery reports) said they got delivery reports in 30-odd seconds. Pretty impressive I must say. I got a lot of cross-network SMSes too and that was working fine as well.

    I think this time the mobile operators in India did a good job. Kudos!

  • http://www.sendmytxt.co.uk Alex

    Mine was cool, no network busy on voice or failure to send on SMS with Orange after midnight. Then again, I did send out most of my texts *before* midnight just in case :)

  • John

    I had one message fail to be sent on “three” but the others went fine. I received a few up to 4 hours late (waking me up!) which were apparently sent just after midnight. I don’t know which network from.

    I tried to send a sms to a friend in the Netherlands and it kept failing but I since found out that you can’t text vodafone in the netherlands from three in the UK… I thought that by now you could text anywhere from anywhere and was most disapointed… It worked fine from my old Orange PAYG though.

  • http://www.gawker.com Justin Lumiere

    New York City text messaging was completely hosed on Sunday night, especially between diverse networks like Verizon, Cingular and T-mobile. Many texts refused to go through. Others came through in triplicate. Still others were verified on a 5-hour delay, sometimes duplicating themselves as well. And last, one text message from Sunday evening just came through 38 hours later. Here’s to the lonely souls who should have picked up the phone instead of texting but were too shy… like me! Happy New Years.

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