Comments on: Anyone else experience SMS text messaging delays at midnight?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:28:17 +0000

I was hijacked on paypal account at skype, don’t even talk about phone troubles…

By: PseudoFinn

PseudoFinn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:04:37 +0000

Yeah- everything is news to CNN.

They just reported on the LiIon battery deal yesterday- showed stock footage of AA’s, D cells, NiMh rechargables… pretty much everything but lithium ion batteries.

It just caught my ear when they mentioned “a user on intomobile.com reported blah, blah blah…”

By: Chris P

Chris P — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:20:35 +0000

wtf on CNN!? This isnt exactly a new thing – is it new in the US?

By: PseudoFinn

PseudoFinn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:14:14 +0000

They just referenced this post on CNN this morning…

By: Jeb

Jeb — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:01:38 +0000

My wifes SMS didn’t go thorough so our breakfast plans fell thorough.

By: lutzs

lutzs — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:09:03 +0000

In the middle of nowhere in germany: 20 minutes delay

By: newtype2011

newtype2011 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:44:08 +0000

Some of mine didn’t get through as well…rather annoying, but it’s obviously to be expected. I’m still in favor of calling rather than texting though…you never know if a text gets through or not!

By: the welk

the welk — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:04:04 +0000

should add, im on an Irish network but roaming in the UK at the moment.

By: the welk

the welk — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:02:38 +0000

Ha, it’s funny to see this reported like it’s a new problem. It’s all part of the new year experience for the more advanced SMS countries. I remember the same thing happening in 1999. This year was better than previous years though because I got all of my texts by 1am instead of the usual 4am.

By: Kirollos Fares

Kirollos Fares — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:48:50 +0000

I live in Cairo , Egypt and the whole network of Vodafone Egypt went down , not SMS delays but people couldn’t reach me and i was unable to do phone calls

By: Steve_R

Steve_R — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:02:41 +0000

Yes, Orange UK was down as is usual between 11pm and about 4am.

Forgot to turn my phone to silent, so annoyingly got woken up at some point aroun 5am when the sms came flooding in.

By: Chris P

Chris P — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:00:23 +0000

Its usually like that on New Year eve in London, it takes a few attempts to send a text, pretty much par for the course. Pretty understandable really, the volume of texts at midnight must be enormous. I experiemced the same thing during the blackout in Manhattan in 2004 and during the London bombs. It probably wont make financial sense for mobile networks to make big changes as it holds up pretty well usually and I am sure they clear up a lot of capacity for that 1 night anyway.

By: WestN

WestN — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:56:04 +0000

lol… this happens every new year at midnight in sweden.. maybe time to send more sms americans?;)