well... I know that if I sms an MTN number from my UTL line, I get a successful delivery report, but when I do so with my orange line to an mtn number, I always get delivery failed report. At times, even when the message has been delivered. A quick check on the orange side shows the delivery report of a failure at MTN to deliver my message, albeit being received. I have learnt to send and ignore the status report.
calling a utl line from orange, the lady at utl tells you how the number you have called is not available on the utl network :-/ call it off any other network and you go through #:-s On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:11 PM, simbwa <[email protected]> wrote: > Read a post on delayed mail & thought I could also raise the issue of > delayed SMS delivery esp. when it's coming from a different provider (not > sure but could the problem be around the switch or it's just the SMSGW > that's stressed!) . May be someone on this list could enlighten us on > what's happening & when we can expect things to normalize. To reproduce what > am talking about, proceed as follows: > 1. Install & configure kannel 1.4.3 > 2. Use a GSM modem of any other operator but MTN ( I use the orange E160) > 3. In your preferred scripting/programming language; write an app to send > bulk SMS (I use python) > 4. If you have an MTN line, include your number say 4/5 times in the > recipient list ( which could have numbers of other networks) > 5. The first MTN number(recipient) will recieve the SMS shortly but the > rest get kind of delayed or in some cases never delivered. > 6. I figured, may be my script was over pushing. So I included some rate > control method in the bulk class...(played with rates upto 1sms per 3sec) > --- no change! > 7. Looked @bearerbox log (boxes running in debug mode)... I couldn't see > anything unusual. The SMS traffic gets to the orange SMSC ( I also get > billed for all the messages) > 8. Visited the orange HQ to verify with them, and from the printout they > showed me, all my traffic was recieved & duly sent to MTN (for MTN numbers). > > > Sent from iPhone Mobile Mail > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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