>> "We've built in extra capacity and we've got our technicians who won't be
>> popping the champagne on the night because they will be too busy working
>> to
>> make sure everyone's messages get through."
>
> Yeah, SURE they will...

There are technicians on-call all night and staff monitoring traffic 24x7 in
the GOC

> Thing is, no one will know for sure whether or not their MMS/SMSes get
> through
> unless the recipients all respond with a reply (and that the original
> sender
> gets that reply).

Whats your point? Thats SOP for text and MMS.

> The message service thing must be the single biggest cash cow that any
> telco can
> have. No guarantee of service, no refunds if it fails to work, something
> that

And it works almost all the time