on 13-04-2018 13:22
on 13-04-2018 14:50
on 13-04-2018 14:50
@Pooks69 Personally I haven't experienced that problem, but I believe several others have. I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but the easiest way to avoid texts at that hour is to switch off your phone, unless it's absolutely necessary for you to have it on all night.
on 13-04-2018 14:53
Obviously there is no need for the second text though O2's automated systems are a law unto themselves. It's not as though someone sends out but the programming/programmers needs looking at straightaway. It doesn't take Into account time differences either and it's always been like this as long as I can remember.
on 13-04-2018 20:48
on 13-04-2018 20:48
Sounds like the message got queued in the Short Message Service (SMS) Centre for some reason.
Although I believe some years ago O2 deployed a direct routing solution for SMS that would attempt to deliver the SMS directly first rather than the usual 'store and forward' technique that would commit it to storage and forward it on when the target device checked in there are still a number of reasons why delivery can be delayed and as such it remains classed as a 'best efforts' service.
Just like e-mail, once sent it can get delayed at a number of points that are beyond the control of the originating system/handset which is why there's no way to recall an SMS (think that can be done on iMessage though but that works differently.)
I've had texts that are a day late some times and when I've replied people have been suprised and in one instance even throught I was ignoring them!
on 14-04-2018 03:22
on 14-04-2018 03:22
I think he's complaining more about the fact that two texts were received for the same confirmation, the second one at silly o'clock.