No Congestion

[Syndyre]

Previously on days like Christmas I could never get sms's to send and if they did they were delivered hours later, the network was often too congested to make calls etc. but yesterday everything seemed to work perfectly smoothly, for me at least. Don't know if you guys upgraded the capacity or whatever but it seemed to work.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

Just wait until new year's eve......

 

[Syndyre]

That's what I was wondering about too.

 

[MyDraadloos]

I'm afraid this was not the case everywhere. I decided to send an MMS this year to all my contacts, unfortunately it is still in my outbox.

 

[Getafix]

Worked like a dream on VC.

 

[ic]

Vodacom's HSDPA has been working very smoothly where I am, whilst ADSL has been deader than a squashed mozzie [since Sunday evening]...

 

[Syndyre]

My ADSL's been pretty slow lately too.

 

[AirWolf]

Maybe sms works better because more people are mmss' instead

 

[Syndyre]

Maybe sms works better because more people are mmss' instead

Guess so, you never know.

 

[vodacom3g]

Guess so, you never know.

Don't think so.

Although we've been trying to educate users on how to better use MMS's (and got blasted for the effort! ), most people will still send SMS's.

 

[kwmf]

My SMS's worked but I wasn't getting delivery reports. No idea if that was on purpose, but it would certainly cut down on SMS traffic.

Perhaps more people are resorting to a good old phone call ... or (*gasp*) actually visiting people face to face

 

[Syndyre]

Don't think so.

Although we've been trying to educate users on how to better use MMS's (and got blasted for the effort! ), most people will still send SMS's.

Personally I usually send sms's just because I know they'll get delivered and people don't have to have the right settings installed etc. Almost everybody has MMS-enabled phones these days I guess, but not sure how many actually download the settings etc. Got an sms bundle anyway so I may as well use it up.

 

[Syndyre]

My SMS's worked but I wasn't getting delivery reports. No idea if that was on purpose, but it would certainly cut down on SMS traffic.

Not sure if a delivery report is actually a "full" sms back to the phone, but I was getting mine anyway.

 

[Edinetz]

Don't think so.

Although we've been trying to educate users on how to better use MMS's (and got blasted for the effort! ), most people will still send SMS's.

An MMS uses an SMS to instruct the phone to connect and collect the MMS so sending MMS only solves the problem whilst the SMSC is under-dimentioned and the MMSC is underutilsed. If marketing works next year it may be better to send SMS's again.

 

[vodacom3g]

An MMS uses an SMS to instruct the phone to connect and collect the MMS so sending MMS only solves the problem whilst the SMSC is under-dimentioned and the MMSC is underutilsed. If marketing works next year it may be better to send SMS's again.

Ratio of SMS-only to MMS-capable phones still is about 3 to 1. Ratio of SMS to MMS is probably closer to 1000's to 1.