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How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
Sprint customer here. About a month or 2 ago, I started noticing that some messages sent using the email to SMS service can be significantly delayed. I've seen messages delayed up to (and possibly ...
I actually (think I) solved this problem by working around it. I switched from using email-to-text to an AppleScript that tells the messages app on macOS to send the SMS.
My only concern there is that my phone may need to have either a WiFi or data connection in order for the SMS to be sent, which makes it no better than an iMessage, but from what I’ve heard, the ability to send/receive SMS without a data connection is going away with the decommissioning of the 2G network anyway.
Thank you for the various suggestions. I'm at the point where I'm just relying on automated emails instead of texts (though of curse I lose the immediacy I *used* to have with SMS)
I am planning on writing a letter to T-Mobile, since I think a call would be a crap-shoot as to who I get, and how well I can explain it verbally. I hope an actual snail-mail document would maybe get some attention, as well as giving me room to detail how all this has come about.
This is something they should just fix.
The FCC thing is a good idea as well.
