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Graham - 24 Jun 2004 12:46 GMT

I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
even though my outbox indicates I sent it to her. Is there such a thing
as a "crossed" SMS, whereby SMSs get sent to the wrong number by the
network? I was sending it from my Orange phone to a Telstra mobile, but it
got sent to someone with a 0425 number! Very weird.

Graham.

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Michael - 24 Jun 2004 13:45 GMT

> I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
> SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
> even though my outbox indicates I sent it to her. Is there such a thing
> as a "crossed" SMS, whereby SMSs get sent to the wrong number by the
> network? I was sending it from my Orange phone to a Telstra mobile, but it
> got sent to someone with a 0425 number! Very weird.

Why dont you ask Orange?
Ive never heard of it occurring

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Lee - 24 Jun 2004 14:03 GMT

>>I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
>>SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
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> Why dont you ask Orange?
> Ive never heard of it occurring

It happened to me but it was with Optus no Orange.

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Johnnie5 - 24 Jun 2004 14:38 GMT

when i had orange I would call someone stored in the phone and get a wrong
number so I wouldn't be surprised

> I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
> SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
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>
> Graham.

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Michael - 26 Jun 2004 00:41 GMT

> when i had orange I would call someone stored in the phone and get a wrong
> number so I wouldn't be surprised

Depends whether you dialled the area code or not, and where you were at the
time

> > I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
> > SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
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> >
> > Graham.

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Martin Taylor - 27 Jun 2004 14:08 GMT

Graham said....

> I just replied to an SMS my sister sent me, and I got a reply to my
> SMS from an unknown number. I rang my sister and she never got the SMS,
> even though my outbox indicates I sent it to her. Is there such a thing
> as a "crossed" SMS, whereby SMSs get sent to the wrong number by the
> network? I was sending it from my Orange phone to a Telstra mobile, but
> it got sent to someone with a 0425 number! Very weird.

Interesting. Saturday morning, around 10ish, get a call. One of the
mates has lost his mobile. He rang Telstra this morning to get a bar put
on it. Telstra tells him that a couple of SMSes were sent from it around
8 am. We find the phone, locked in our car, about an hour later. It was
switched off (dead battery).

The mate's now asking Telstra how 2 SMSes were sent from it when it was
switched off, and in no-one's possesion. He's yet to find out.

Makes you wonder how good the software that tracks this stuff is. Are
all those overbilling tales true, perhaps?

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Jim Jones - 27 Jun 2004 19:57 GMT

> Graham said....
>
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> Makes you wonder how good the software that tracks this stuff is. Are
> all those overbilling tales true, perhaps?

Tad unlikely when there are never any that I havent made on my bill, fuckwit.

MUCH more likely some stupid monkey stuffed up when he asked for the bar, cretin.

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Michael - 28 Jun 2004 10:33 GMT

> Graham said....
>
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> Makes you wonder how good the software that tracks this stuff is. Are
> all those overbilling tales true, perhaps?

Nope

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Shaun - 29 Jun 2004 02:53 GMT

I remember when I was on Virgin, I was calling people from my mobile phones
address book list and it was going to the wrong numbers! The outage lasted a
good half an hour too, was rediculous.

So this sort of thing DOES happen.

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