Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Been having problems texting certain numbers in the UK. This has been going on for several days. I can receive texts from those numbers but when I reply the text does not get through. This is the sam issue on 2 different phones with different numbers going to different phones with different providers in the UK when other texts seem to be going through fine.

Any ideas??

I've got a UK mobile and a Cyprus mobile.

A lot of texts sent from the Cyprus mobile to UK numbers are never received. I've noticed this over the last 6 months.

Sorry that doesn't help but thought you'd like to know you're not the only one!

Are you sure you have added the 0044 before the mobile number for the UK phones?
With some of my texts I have to write a new one instead of just replying on the back of the incoming text.

My wife and I are also having trouble with sending texts to UK from Turkcell - receives ok but sent texts never arrive -been like this for a week or two.

Yes about the numbers we have been texting these numbers for years. We can receive but not send. Three numbers now, 2 are vodafone one is talk talk who may piggy on vodaphone for all I know

J. I have been having same trouble for over 6 months now. Can receive but can't send an initial text i.e. texts go if I hit the reply button, but not if I'm the first texter. Numbers I have problem with start 07717.

I am having trouble sending texts to the UK as is a friend of mine who has spoken to Turkcell who say they are fixing this!!! When we may ask. Not good enough!

For the UK you can use either 0044 or +44 then the mobile number omitting the first zero.... It would be good to see if using the plus instead of the leading zeroes makes a difference.

It needs to be borne in mind that use of SMS Texting is not always as instant as you'd think - or the networks would have you think. The texts are sent to a messaging centre and attempts to forward to the destination phone can be made over several days until the system receives an acknowledgement signal (ack) back from the target to the effect that the message has been successfully delivered. Or the message is timed out, this can be configured. But normally the default is several days.

That's why if your phone has been off - when you switch it on you often get a squirt of old messages being held awaiting delivery.

The same goes for sending the text if the phone doesn't get an 'acknowledgement' becasue your handset is in for example a very weak reception area, then it attempts re-send. These resent messages should be weeded out by the messaging centre but some early handsets that did not fully comply with the GSM standard (using numbering from 0 - 255 to distinguish between texts sent, re-sent and delivered) caused the message to be 'sent' multiple times by the handset and each was charged for because to the messaging centre each one looked like a different text even though they had identical characteristics.

The SMS system piggy backs off the in real-time phone network and makes use of latent capacity - so when phone lines are swamped (e.g. when you get a network response say 'Network Busy' when you try to call someone), texts are automatically put on hold until free airtime latency is available.

They are often very quick but they are never in real-time as such. It's a way for the network to make money even when you are not actually talking