Hey everyone,

On campus, myself and a few friends are having problems sending text messages on campus with telus. It's only the text messaging causing these problems, as we usually have a strong signal.

Anyone else having this issue? :(

this was discussed in another thread, and i think people from all carriers have problems sending/receiving texts on campus. i have a telus plan too and probably 1/3 of the texts i send on campus fail sending, and i also get texts late fairly often.

Yup.

It was MUCH worse at the begging of term 1 last year. I called them and they lead engineer said there is NOTHING they can do since the tower just cannot support everyone, and thats the way its gonna be.

I just assumed the girls i was texting were ignoring me :(

Originally Posted by brendanp

this was discussed in another thread, and i think people from all carriers have problems sending/receiving texts on campus. i have a telus plan too and probably 1/3 of the texts i send on campus fail sending, and i also get texts late fairly often.

I didn't have problem when I was with Fido. Nor do I have that I'm with Wind

Yea, I have the same problem, but much worse than 1/3 of the texts... I have to try resending a text usually 5-6 times before it actually gets through. Sometimes I can't get a text through for up to half an hour or so. During these times I'm also not receiving any texts, and when my text resend finally does get through, I often receive multiple incoming messages all basically simultaneously with the outgoing one finally being sent. It's just because the tower can't handle all the clients, so service kind of comes in spurts.

I'm with Virgin Mobile btw, which means the Bell network has this issue too.

I'm with telus and I haven't experienced any problems with text messaging on campus o__o in certain given places, there's just no signal (thode basement, for example), which makes sense, but other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm on Telus and everything's been excellent. No problems at all.

Is it your phone then?

i had trouble texting today fido

a lot of people have problems... it's true it was worse last semester... especially between about 9am-4pm ... it seemed to be only people on the new network... mine worked fine until i got a newer phone (same brand and such as before)... and began having issues.
sometimes it works to turn your phone off and on again, and the messages will push through in the first couple seconds you connect to the network ... if you urgently need to send a msg...

I'm also with Telus but I didn't find it to be a major problems. Just a few times my text would fail to send or I would receive texts REALLY late. There was one time when I sent my friend a text message, but the number that appeared was not mine at all, though it was the message that I sent her :/

the only screwed up thing is that out of my friends, only those on telus have problems, like wtf !

A fix that i've found to sometimes let incoming texts work is dial *611 or any other number (*611 probably is best since its free)

I'm with telus. My phone used to work perfectly on campus (used to have an LG Keybo) until I just recently upgraded to a smartphone (HTC Desire) and now I'm stuck getting messages incredibly late or having to retry sending the message about 4 times before it goes through.
Maybe it's the type of phone?