Vodafone texting - problems on Fri morning?

Hi

I can't send or receive texts suddenly on Voda contract. I rang 191 and they
said the SMC in southampton has failed and many customers are affected.
The phone still makes / receives calls, and I've tried the sim in a different
handset too, but it just won't send a text, i get "message sending failed" to a
range of numbers.

Being a bit suspicious, after it took them a month to get texting working for
me last time it 'failed' can anyone confirm the network problem actually
exisits, and it isn't just me this time?

Thanks

Martin

Martin wrote:
> I can't send or receive texts suddenly on Voda contract. I rang 191 and they
> said the SMC in southampton has failed and many customers are affected.
> The phone still makes / receives calls, and I've tried the sim in a different
> handset too, but it just won't send a text, i get "message sending failed" to a
> range of numbers.
>
> Being a bit suspicious, after it took them a month to get texting working for
> me last time it 'failed' can anyone confirm the network problem actually
> exisits, and it isn't just me this time?

I seem to be receiving okay after I sent a text message from my
T-Mobile MDA Vario II to my Contract Vodafone Nokia N80, but the
message I sent from the N80 to the Vario II a few minutes ago hasn't
arrived yet.

There was a widespread UK fault with Vodafone SMS which occurred on
Friday has since been resolved.

Are you still having problems? (e.g. you could attempt to send a test
SMS to yourself on 9770).

Phil Chung wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> > I can't send or receive texts suddenly on Voda contract. I rang 191 and they
> > said the SMC in southampton has failed and many customers are affected.
> > The phone still makes / receives calls, and I've tried the sim in a different
> > handset too, but it just won't send a text, i get "message sending failed" to a
> > range of numbers.
> >
> > Being a bit suspicious, after it took them a month to get texting working for
> > me last time it 'failed' can anyone confirm the network problem actually
> > exisits, and it isn't just me this time?
>
> I seem to be receiving okay after I sent a text message from my
> T-Mobile MDA Vario II to my Contract Vodafone Nokia N80, but the
> message I sent from the N80 to the Vario II a few minutes ago hasn't
> arrived yet.

MinervaUK wrote:
> There was a widespread UK fault with Vodafone SMS which occurred on
> Friday has since been resolved.
>
> Are you still having problems? (e.g. you could attempt to send a test
> SMS to yourself on 9770).
>
> Phil Chung wrote:
> > Martin wrote:
> > > I can't send or receive texts suddenly on Voda contract. I rang 191 and they
> > > said the SMC in southampton has failed and many customers are affected.
> > > The phone still makes / receives calls, and I've tried the sim in a different
> > > handset too, but it just won't send a text, i get "message sending failed" to a
> > > range of numbers.
> > >
> > > Being a bit suspicious, after it took them a month to get texting working for
> > > me last time it 'failed' can anyone confirm the network problem actually
> > > exisits, and it isn't just me this time?
> >
> > I seem to be receiving okay after I sent a text message from my
> > T-Mobile MDA Vario II to my Contract Vodafone Nokia N80, but the
> > message I sent from the N80 to the Vario II a few minutes ago hasn't
> > arrived yet.

I had problems yesterday (Monday) texting to another vodafone number.
I was getting a 'message sending failed', err message, which just kept
appearing. I eventually tried to call the other number, but got an
'error in connection' message repeatedly!!! Don't know if this is
related, but I eventually resolved it by power-cycling and it sorted
itself after that.