Text message - Delivery reports

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I know there are a few threads regarding this topic but they seem a few years old now and wondered if there was any new info on whether or not O2 plan to introduce this as a standard feature?

Most modern Smartphones have the option within their settings to receive delivery reports for text messages. These are usually confirmed on the senders phone with a small tick and indicate your friend has received the message you sent to them.

There are a few reasons why I find delivery reports useful and I'm sure I'm not the only one. One example is, if you know a message has not been delivered, you know your friends phone is possibly off and you can simply wait before sending them any more messages.

I realise you can manually type *#0 before every text message but this can be awkward and does not look very good when looking back through the messages you have sent.

In February, I came from BT (the carrier was Vodaphone, I believe) and they provided this simple network feature as standard. You could turn on the delivery reports option within your phones' settings and automatically get delivery notification whenever a message was sent, without the need to type in a special code before every single message.

If Vodaphone (and other carriers) can provide this feature as standard, why not O2?

Thank you.

[jonsie]

You're going to be an expert by Christmas

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

You're going to be an expert by Christmas

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I have no such delusions of grandeur...

[Anonymous]

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@aldaweb wrote:

Just precede your message with *0# (star,zero,hash,space) and you will get a delivery report. Note that with SMS it's only a delivery report.

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Sorry to butt in here @aldaweb  - slow learner that I am.  When you say "precede your message with ..."  do you mean before the recipient's name or number, or at the beginning of the actual message?

Apologies for being a bit dim ....ok a lot dim. 

Gerry

[MI5]

The keyword is "message"

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
The keyword is "message"

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Hmmmm - but on my mobile the thing that currently precedes the message is the Recipient's number.

Gerry

[jonsie]

Immediately preceding the text you write...

[Anonymous]

Clear, succinct, and to the point.   Just the way I like it. 

Many thanks @jonsie 

 And thanks also to you @MI5  - I was 99.99999999% sure that's what you meant but with my luck........................

Gerry

[aldaweb]

To be exact... the first 4 characters of the message itself

[Anonymous]

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@aldaweb wrote:

To be exact... the first 4 characters of the message itself

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Noted.  Thanks @aldaweb 

Gerry

[jonsie]

The first three actually