Originally Posted by notoriousdbp:
“Erm it's new years day, this happens every year and proves that the networks don't allow the capacity needed for an occasion such as midnight on new years eve”
Right, so networks should invest what would be 100's of £m's to make sure the network can cope on 1 night out of 365, then pass that cost onto the end user.
Great idea
Originally Posted by notoriousdbp:
“in case of an emergency perhaps - like a bomb going off or something like that”
Totally irrelevant, a cell receiving a 999 call will disconnect other traffic to take the emergency call, plus taking your bomb theory, the networks close down their network to be used only by emergency services and the gov, as seen on the day of the london bombings
Originally Posted by TheFirstCut:
“Text messages aren't priority traffic, they just get sent when there's spare capacity for them to go.”
not quite correct, voice and data are two different things, sms messages are sent over an SDCCH channel, this is set by the operator depending on their chosen matrix.