Fwd: Contact w/ clue re: AT&T SMS email gateway?

[Terry L. Inzauro]

Marc Powell wrote:
> Seen on NANOG mailling list, forwarding here due to recent question  
> about this same issue. Appears to be an ATT thing at this point.
> 
> No interesting responses to the thread yet.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Dave Pascoe <davekm3t at gmail.com>
>> Date: September 17, 2009 2:03:55 PM CDT
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Contact w/ clue re: AT&T SMS email gateway?
>> Reply-To: Dave Pascoe <dave at tcnc.com>
>>
>> Recently something seems to have changed with the @txt.att.net email  
>> to
>> SMS gateway.  Messages sent through the gateway suffer from the  
>> following:
>>
>> 1) Long delay in reaching the phone (intermittent)
>>   (yes I know there is no latency guarantee)
>>
>> and, even more crippling,
>>
>> 2) Message comes through as just "SMS Message" instead of the SMTP
>> message content.  And the sender is always 410-000-01x, where x
>> increments by 1 with each new incoming email-to-SMS gateway-handled  
>> message.
>>
>> Phone is an iPhone 3GS.  This has worked fine for quite a while.  No
>> changes on the iPhone.
>>
>> I have gone through normal AT&T Wireless Customer Service but there
>> isn't much clue there - had to explain what an email to SMS gateway  
>> is.
>>
>> Anyone elese seeing this?  Anyone from AT&T Wireless here?
>>
>> Please contact me off-list.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Dave Pascoe
>>
> 

i've been seeing this behavior for about 3 months now.  from what i understand, it is caused by the large influx of traffic
generated by the iphones.  the sms "from" change is not specific to the iphone (i use an old motorola razr ) and I see the
same behavior.

the att network just cant keep up, that is, right now.  it is to my understanding that att is planning some major upgrades
but those upgrades will not affect current users. the users will have to upgrade in order to take advantage of the new tech.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?_r=1&hp



regards,


_Terry




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