We have UK mobiles with Giffgaff SIMs. We have auto-top-ups. We don't have Goody bags because we don't 'do' data. Our phones make calls and send texts. However whenever we send texts to such as Italy they fail to arrive. Calls are OK.

Experimenting we have found that texts sent by friends on Virgin, Vodafone and EE always get through.

Texts sent on O2 and Giffgaff always fail to get through.

Giffgaff customer agents refuse to escalate this issue to O2. They always and invariably want a SIM swap first. Not sure why because the issue is with the O2 and Giffgaff networks not just the one phone. Scam?

BTW texts FROM Italy always arrive. So its a one-way block. It started on or around Sept. 10.

Any advice please? Thanks - CJB

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 09:01:34 UTC, C wrote:
We have UK mobiles with Giffgaff SIMs. We have auto-top-ups. We don't have Goody bags because we don't 'do' data. Our phones make calls and send texts. However whenever we send texts to such as Italy they fail to arrive. Calls are OK.

Experimenting we have found that texts sent by friends on Virgin, Vodafone and EE always get through.

Texts sent on O2 and Giffgaff always fail to get through.

Giffgaff customer agents refuse to escalate this issue to O2. They always and invariably want a SIM swap first. Not sure why because the issue is with the O2 and Giffgaff networks not just the one phone. Scam?

BTW texts FROM Italy always arrive. So its a one-way block. It started on or around Sept. 10.

Any advice please? Thanks - CJB

True text SMS should get through. I have noticed that [heavily chargeable] MMS messages with pictures require mobile data to be switched on and this is probably the problem.

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 02:01:32 -0700 (PDT), C
wrote:

We have UK mobiles with Giffgaff SIMs. We have auto-top-ups. We don't have Goody bags because we don't 'do' data. Our phones make calls and send texts. However whenever we send texts to such as Italy they fail to arrive. Calls are OK.

Experimenting we have found that texts sent by friends on Virgin, Vodafone and EE always get through.

Texts sent on O2 and Giffgaff always fail to get through.

Giffgaff customer agents refuse to escalate this issue to O2. They always and invariably want a SIM swap first. Not sure why because the issue is with the O2 and Giffgaff networks not just the one phone. Scam?

BTW texts FROM Italy always arrive. So its a one-way block. It started on or around Sept. 10.

Any advice please? Thanks - CJB

I can't recall the outcome but I had similar issues with texts to an
Asian country - consistently couldn't send, but could receive and
could send via a different provider. It was a few years back and I
think the issue turned out to be Giffgaffs partner in the overseas
country.

Everyone (me included) now use WhatsApp.

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AnthonyL

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 10:05:42 UTC, R. Mark Clayton wrote:
On Thursday, 1 November 2018 09:01:34 UTC, C wrote:
We have UK mobiles with Giffgaff SIMs. We have auto-top-ups. We don't have Goody bags because we don't 'do' data. Our phones make calls and send texts. However whenever we send texts to such as Italy they fail to arrive. Calls are OK.

Experimenting we have found that texts sent by friends on Virgin, Vodafone and EE always get through.

Texts sent on O2 and Giffgaff always fail to get through.

Giffgaff customer agents refuse to escalate this issue to O2. They always and invariably want a SIM swap first. Not sure why because the issue is with the O2 and Giffgaff networks not just the one phone. Scam?

BTW texts FROM Italy always arrive. So its a one-way block. It started on or around Sept. 10.

Any advice please? Thanks - CJB

True text SMS should get through. I have noticed that [heavily chargeable] MMS messages with pictures require mobile data to be switched on and this is probably the problem.

Not MMS texts - just simple SMS texts!! CJB

On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:56:51 GMT
(AnthonyL) wrote:

Everyone (me included) now use WhatsApp.

...owned by Zuck's Networking Emporium Inc. which, going on their MO of
the past few years, is happily building up a profile of your social
network.

I couldn't say it better than Mark himself: "They trust me - dumb
****s."

I think that's what they call a “Ratnerism”.
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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:06:26 +0000
Graham. wrote:

On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:56:51 GMT
(AnthonyL) wrote:

Everyone (me included) now use WhatsApp.

...owned by Zuck's Networking Emporium Inc. which, going on their MO
of the past few years, is happily building up a profile of your
social network.

I couldn't say it better than Mark himself: "They trust me - dumb
****s."

I think that's what they call a “Ratnerism”.

Indeed, and in both cases the general public continue[d] to buy it.

I'm going to launch an anti-social medium. I'm going to call it
TangledWeb. I'll make a fortune.


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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On 02/11/2018 16:33, Chronos wrote:
On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:06:26 +0000
Graham. wrote:

On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:56:51 GMT
lid (AnthonyL) wrote:

Everyone (me included) now use WhatsApp.

...owned by Zuck's Networking Emporium Inc. which, going on their MO
of the past few years, is happily building up a profile of your
social network.

I couldn't say it better than Mark himself: "They trust me - dumb
****s."

I think that's what they call a “Ratnerism�.

Indeed, and in both cases the general public continue[d] to buy it.

Some people are gullible enough to buy anything. Which is why Zuckerberg
(try doing a spell-check on that name, by the way) is so successful.


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On 02/11/2018 20:12, Graham. wrote:

I'm going to launch an anti-social medium. I'm going to call it
TangledWeb. I'll make a fortune.

I'll sign up for that.


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Ria in Aberdeen

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