Unsent Valentine's Day texts are suddenly appearing on phones in the US

guest · Nov 9, 2019

Unsent Valentine's Day texts are suddenly appearing on phones in the US
November 8, 2019
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3083574/valentines-day-sms-bug

Americans: If you've found an old flame texting you out of the blue, you may want to think twice before you reply. A weird bug affecting all four of the main American networks has seen unsent text messages from February - especially Valentine's Day - dropping in inboxes in the middle of the night.

Indeed, not just this February either. One Reddit post has people claiming they're getting messages sent from Valentine's Day of years past too.
Better late than never, we suppose.
[...] a fair number of people across the Atlantic woke up to text messages from friends and relatives who are now no longer with us. "It was a punch in the gut," one affected person told The Verge.

How did this happen? It's not clear - while both T-Mobile ("third-party vendor" issue) and Sprint ("maintenance update" error) have given vague excuses, it doesn't really offer much to go on.
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guest · Nov 9, 2019

SMS provider said 168,000 Valentine’s texts were delayed — now it says the number is higher
Messaging company now reviewing policies to ‘ensure this does not happen again.’
November 8, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/8/...es-day-syniverse-total-number-growth-carriers

The company at fault for the tens of thousands of delayed text messages that were sent out early Thursday morning says that more messages were delayed than it originally believed. Syniverse, the company at fault, originally stated that 168,149 messages were delayed. It now says that the number was based on “preliminary data” and that further review shows the message total “is higher than initially reported.”

The issue is now resolved and no more delayed messages are being sent, according to Syniverse. “We apologize to anyone who was impacted by this occurrence,” said William Hurley, Syniverse’s marketing and product chief.
All of the delayed messages were sent out because of a server issue, Syniverse said. A single server failed on Valentine’s Day 2019, holding onto messages that hadn’t yet been sent out. That server was only brought online again on November 7th, causing the stuck texts to finally be released.

Mobile carriers rely on a number of third-party companies, like Syniverse, to route text messages that are being sent between networks. That’s why people across all major carriers and even smaller carriers experienced the issue [...]
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https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/08/text-messages-valentines-day-delayed/
[...] The thing is, SMS shouldn't be stored this long, so the company might face class-action lawsuits going forward.
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