Long Texts

[danhann9]

I have an iPhone 4s on orange sometimes when I send a text over a page long it comes up with the little exclamation mark next to the message saying it's failed to send however I always have full signal and the person I'm sending the message to says they get little bits of the message but never the message as a whole. Is this to do with the phone or the provider? It's pretty much fine on short text messages.

 

[MC77]

What phone do they have? Not had that happen to me since the days of the Nokia 3210 on GSM network!

 

[mjoy710]

I am also facing same type of problems.My phone Nokia 5130.

 

[dc8900]

Is this to do with the phone or the provider? It's pretty much fine on short text messages.

might be provider as I'm with T-Mobile (and was with o2 until Nov '11) and I have never had a problem sending long texts (300-500 character range) since the days of the iPhone 2G

 

[williamus]

Yes, I suspect it's the recipients handset and/or the service limitations of their SIM. When texts were relatively expensive people rarely sent anything above the 160 character/space limit. From what I remember from my Moto V3 days long texts used to arrive in bits and pieces. I believe long texts still go in blocks of 160 characters but that modern handsets stitch texts togther so they appear seamless.

 

[danhann9]

Thanks for the replies guys. The other person is using a Blackberry so I'll have to see what their SIM is.