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You know how sometimes you swear you sent your wife a text but it doesn't get to her for several hours?

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Mar 31 '14, 15:45

I now know the technical reason for that. It's because preferred traffic got to go first.

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Yes. Additional reason: service provider is full of incompetent boobs. That's the only explanation I can think of for Telus<->Telus SMS lag. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 31, 16:22 1
- A Short Code apparently gives preferential treatment to bulk messages over individual ones by the masses. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 16:27
I bet those preferred texts are shirtless Thor pics -- nm - Remlik Mar 31, 15:56 2
- *snort* right? - Mel Profit Mar 31, 15:58 1
  - Get the Push-To-Talk feature ala old Nextel -- nm - Rula Stacks Mar 31, 16:00

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