On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:59:08 -0500, Robert Coe <bob@1776.COM> wrote in
<u7eon2le6hoocg3ai25vgbmt389d73clrl@4ax.com>:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:08:59 GMT, John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com>
>wrote:
>: On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:32:07 GMT, Mike M <mikasn@swbell.net> wrote in
>: <byz7h.13951$yl4.1754@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com >:
>:
>: >John Navas wrote:
>: >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:34:55 GMT, Mike M <mikasn@swbell.net> wrote in
>: >> <3rt7h.4711$yE6.4269@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> :
>: >>
>: >>> This is obviously a Cingular problem, as I had the same problem last
>: >>> year.
>: >>
>: >> It's actually probably a 3rd-party gateway problem.
>: >>
>: >>> All of the sudden some texts would complete and some would
>: >>> not-even if they were all to local Cingular customers. After several
>: >>> attempts I got an experienced CS rep, who transferred me directly to the
>: >>> tech deptartment and the guy said he would fix the problem and follow up
>: >>> to make sure it worked. Two days later I received a call, and by then
>: >>> they had already started working.
>: >>> No reason you should have to use +1 to send texts.
>: >>
>: >> If course not, but no harm, and it might help in the short run.
>: >> "OF"
>: >the harm would be that in the long run it would not solve the problem.
>:
>: On the contrary -- there is _no_ harm whatsoever, and it might also help
>: in the long run. All of my phone numbers are entered that way, which
>: may explain why I have so few problems.
>:
>: >P.S. please don't mince words. Thanks
>:
>: You're pretty much the first person to accuse me of that. LOL!
>
>Possibly because he's using the term in its literal sense, akin to "splitting
>hairs". I don't suppose you're Usenet's No. 1 hairsplitter by any means, but
>you do probably rank in the top fifty.
>
>Anyway, back to the topic ...
>
>From lurking in this newsgroup for a few days, and from a couple of Google
>searches, I've tentatively concluded that Cingular's text messaging feature
>depends on a decentralized group of "messaging centers" and that users in
>different parts of the country are defaulted to different centers via a
>setting in their phones. Do you think it might help solve Mike's problem to
>find that setting and try one or more different centers? Possibly the problem
>is localized to the center in his area. I ask you because you seem to be
>pretty well steeped in Cingular's lore and practices, at least relative to
>others in the group.

To my knowledge there were only two such centers. Regardless, one
report of a problem does not a regional issue make.

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