In my market (southeastern PA), texting has gotten better. It's still not good but compared to my last go around with boost it is improved. I came back to boost 2 weeks ago and since then I've received 165 texts. Maybe 10 of them were delayed more than 30 minutes. I haven't all together missed any texts that I know of. I haven't gotten any texts that came in at 3 am like I had earlier in the year. Sending texts was never a problem for me but it does seem quicker also.
In general there does appear to have been real improvements to this market and as long as things stay at this level of "better-ness" and price, I'll be a subscriber.
I think it picked up pretty well, i have only been texting boost-to-boost though in the last week, which for me has always been superb.
On the other hand, I have two messages that I recieved the other day, no info on them, I cant open them, cant read them, and I cant even delete them, I tried to a bunch of different ways and they will not disapear, so now it consistantly shows that I have a text message in the upper right hand corner of my home screen.
I dropped my iPhone in the lake this weekend (doh!) so I've been relying on Boost for all my emails. I forward email to my phone's email address. Yesterday I rec'd about 75 emails with just a few problems.
Occasionally they will bounce back though which is odd. It is not related to the length of the message. Here's the bounce message that comes up:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. (state 14).
(I am forwarding from Google's hosted email service to Myboostmobile.com)
Anyway, texting to and from other phones is working fine, but is delayed at times by as much as a few minutes - I've seen up to 10 minutes. Their system is obviously not ideal for text, given that all texts go as MMS style messages. It will *never* be as good as standard SMS.
From wut BOOST tells me txting in my market are great but I still dont get MMS. I have to tun off my fone then turn it back on to get them. Even SMS i have a 8 hour delay to get them so I dont know. My wife gets MMS just fime but I dont so txting for me still sux.
I am in the Columbus OH market and I basically have found that there are good days and bad. I have had text come and go in seconds, but also some come in 2 hours later and this has been recently. The biggest thing for me is they started charging me for text even though I was suppose to have unlimted text, called them and spoke to one rep who said it was a problem credited me back, but the next time, nobody would give a credit and the supervisor said it was an accurate charge.
Incoming texts are not usable. I sent four texts to my Boost phone last night. The last one came in within a minute or so. The next one came in like 10 minutes later. The other two did not come in until much later (I turned off the phone by then - but they were there this morning).
Incoming texts are not usable. I sent four texts to my Boost phone last night. The last one came in within a minute or so. The next one came in like 10 minutes later. The other two did not come in until much later (I turned off the phone by then - but they were there this morning).
I'm with you. No real change at all. i still a few hrs late text everyonce and a while. An improvement to me would be a text being delayed for no more then 5 mins. When that happens then we can discuss improvements.
There are plenty of other carriers out there that can do it, they can do it to.
10 seconds... sounds reasonable. Remember that inter-carrier SMS is ''instant''. While texting outside of your carrier's subscriber base can take additional time (although it should not take more than a minute or so...).
When I text my friend with T-Mobile it is within 1 second - no matter if we are standing next to each other or in different counties.
- Texting Sprint users takes about 5 seconds - can take up to 20 sometimes.
- Texting Nextel users... 45 seconds (or greater)
- Texting at&t users it takes between 15 seconds and 30 seconds
- Texting Verizon users takes around 25 seconds
These are averages. So, as you can see, inter-carrier is MUCH faster than ''outside'' carrier SMS. It's not just for iDEN - it's all carriers. While iDENs ''timing'' for SMS may be different - they all share the same commonality of ''outside texting arriving later than inter-carrier''.
Back to the OP's basic question about if the texting has gotten better I think the best answer to this is that none of us can really answer it! It seems to have improved in certain markets. I can say in my area it's much better but you read thru these posts and it seems some folks haven't experienced any improvement. If you are thinking about giving it a try my advice would be to pick up a phone at a retailer that lets you return it (Best Buy, Target) and activate it with a test number and the $5 call credit and try it for yourself in your area with your local towers.
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