>>> Nice try. But the reason I'm with Optus these days is because of what
>>> happened years ago when I was stupid enough to be with Telstra Mobilenet.
>>> Yep, you guessed it - complete system crash, hours-long outage, and all
>>> text messages lost.
>>
>> Rubbish about the text messages lost.
>
> What? Surely you're joking.
>
> Even Optus themselves admitted publicly that ALL text messages sent to
> phones affected by the outage are LOST.
>
> Get a clue and get back to us.

The way I read the OP's comments, he was talking about a *Telstra*
crash, not the recent Optus crash.

Peter