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PAJ - 15 Jan 2008 19:42 GMT

Does anyone use MSN Live Messenger on 3?
I have bought a 3 sim card and put it in my own phone. Added the £5
month data addon and all seems good except for the official MS Live
Messenger client. IM+ messenger (for MSN and Yahoo) and ProfiMail are
working.
MS messenger gives an error 'Messenger is not available right now.
Please try again later'.
It has been doing this since I first tried, 36 hours ago.

I just rang 3 support and they said it is because messenger is down and
has been for a most of today. Well it has been a lot logger than "today"
for me.
So do 3 have their own gateway in to MSN messenger and if so, is this
down? Woman on phone had no idea.

Thanks.

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PAJ - 16 Jan 2008 06:46 GMT

>Does anyone use MSN Live Messenger on 3?
>I have bought a 3 sim card and put it in my own phone. Added the £5
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>So do 3 have their own gateway in to MSN messenger and if so, is this
>down? Woman on phone had no idea.

I guess 3 are just crap. Orange PAYG sim in same phone works OK. 3 still
not working (for over 48 hours now). Either they use there own gateway
(which I do not want) or they are blocking it? Obviously their foreign
support is a crock of sh.t too (knew nothing on phone and no reply to
email sent 48 hours ago).
Will run this sim down using text message and email/web and then try
different provider.

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Gerry (The MOTH) - 16 Jan 2008 08:25 GMT

> Does anyone use MSN Live Messenger on 3?
> I have bought a 3 sim card and put it in my own phone. Added the £5
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>
> Thanks.

You have the Internet add-on why bother with the crappy MSN client and go
for a multi-messenger application like LCG Slick (www.lonelycatgames.com) or
Fring (www.fring.com)?

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PAJ - 16 Jan 2008 17:46 GMT

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:25:10 -0000, "Gerry \(The MOTH\)" <spam@spam.com>
wrote:

>> Does anyone use MSN Live Messenger on 3?
>> I have bought a 3 sim card and put it in my own phone. Added the £5
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>for a multi-messenger application like LCG Slick (www.lonelycatgames.com) or
>Fring (www.fring.com)?

Cheers. I use Profimail but did not know they (lonelycatgames) had a
messaging program. Now I am pissed I did not know of this one sooner.
Definitely slick.
I need to use multiple MSN clients and was worried another one might not
work alongside my existing ones. Just tested Slick and it is working
well with IM+ so that is me happy. So long as they do not charge any
subscription when it goes live I will be happy. Prefer to buy a program
outright and detest paying subscriptions.
Live Messenger is now about to be removed from my phone.

I may still ditch 3 as they have been useless. I emailed them again this
morning to remind I had no contact from them and then got a phone call a
bit later. Spent ages on the phone listening the guy suggesting I
reboot, reinstall Live messenger and reboot and loads of other tosh. He
suggested I press a triangle or something to download it. I explained I
have no "triangle" on my phone. He then said he did not realise this
(despite it being stated in my emails) and then said 3 do not guarantee
anything will work if not using their supplied phone. FFS!

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