How many texts go missing? Stories of texts turning up hours or even days after they were sent – and the consequences – are many and legion. After the weather, it’s probably in the Top 10 of what people talk about in the UK.

But missing texts – ones that are never received – are more difficult to track, as the intended recipient may never know that there was a text for them, and the sender may conclude they have a friend who never replies to texts!

TelecomsMarketResearch is monitoring text transmission times in the UK to establish what the incidence of delayed or missing texts is.

By 8 July 2013 some 390 texts had been generated in the program. Of these, 12 (3%) have not arrived. This is despite ‘message delivered’ confirmations being generated by the networks. Read more