"Texting delays a given on New Years?"

[ajskhan]

Read this article on engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/texting-delays-a-given-on-new-years-celebrate-accordingly/)

Does sprint expect any major delays? Last year I send around 60, and no one received any. :icon_smil --> It was quite annoying.

-Happy new years

[jillianbee]

Interesting. I just finally started texting this year so I didn't experience it last year.

Happy new year!

[NINO63004]

i had no issues last year sending text messages. the friends I was with who had Verizon had some problems though.



Nino

[bjn]

I got a text at 8:15 this morning from my brother wishing me a happy new year. I guess he was trying to beat the rush.

[knytphal]

Yep, go ahead and send them now - get it out of the way early!

[BrettW]

i had zero issues texting on new years last year, but my friends on tmobile metropcs verizon and att wireless had issues, my friends on att wireless couldnt even make phone calls lol the entire network was clogged up for about 20-30 minutes

[cvrefugee]

I have unlimited texts and I still hate those stupid "Insert Generic Greeting Here" messages.

[BrettW]

yep, my phone will be turned off as of 10pm PST and wont turn on again until 12pm PST the next day to avoid the onslaught

[ajskhan]

Last year I had delays, apparently indefinately. Few recieved it hours late (11AM, next morn)

[chibby]

No problems. Sent 13 exactly at midnight.

[Dan]

had some issues with voice calls at 5 past midnight, so one would guess texting would be somewhat delayed also. all in all though its a small issue!

[NINO63004]

I have no problems recieving them but my girlfriend has verizon and she is not getting mine. Nino

[ajskhan]

didn't even bother, recieved a rush of them @ 8AM?!

[Imajika]

I posted in the SMS forum about this. :)

Since last night there have been major delays in sending/receiving text messages, picture mail, etc. The average time right now is 30-60 minutes. Most of the MAJOR delays are happening in California, Texas and New York but delays are being reported EVERYWHERE.

It's lag on the network and there is nothing we can do in tech support to speed up the process. Just be patient and eventually it will get back to processing messages and picture mail at normal speeds.

It seems that some areas are not being effected. I'm in Colorado and mine are going through just fine.

[lennyj17]

yep- I'm getting serval reply this afternoon from my "Happy New Years" txt I sent last night.

[BrettW]

well i had zero delays in sending and receiving and again my friends on other carriers had mass issues (one on att the other on metro pcs couldnt send texts at all until 15-20mins after new years, i sent all my texts out (and got replies) @ midnight)