[MICP1480]

Today I discovered that my text delivery notification was not showing up after I sent a text message. This of course was that little "D" with a check mark, acknowledging that the party for whom I sent the message to, did in deed receive it. Well, after checking all my settings and finding nothing wrong, I decided to investigate this on the internet. It didn't take me long to find out that Verizon has decided to take this feature off without notifying anyone. You can out more on this here:

Verizon Wireless quietly shuts down SMS delivery confirmations : Boy Genius Report


I hope I have helped anyone looking for an answer to the disappearing notification.


MICP1480

[TroyDBrown]

There has been some discussion here about it.

[jbeachy]

Wirelessly posted

There have been quite a few threads here and on crackberry.com. Verizon is cataloging responses(*611 from a VZW phone or 800-922-0204).

[dankarlinski]

lol. im curious to see if they change anything.... i think it was stupid to pull that service anyways.... but hey, its verizon... right??? lol

[rickt]

Good info, thanks for the link. I wouldn't have known otherwise.

[Mattb7]

I got am email from verizon the other day to let me know about it.

[Joe1004]

I asked our account rep yesterday about it and he has confirmed that they are shutting this down on a region by region basis and that it should be turned off completely by the end of the month.

The official line is network congestion for a reason. Also, their documentation indicates that something like 99% of all SMS are delivered within 15 seconds.

I know that almost all the time the difference between send and the delivery coming back is anywhere from 18 t0 25 seconds and that includes the notification coming back, so they are right on this.

I like the notification a lot and when they turn it off, I will call and whine about it.

[tobenning]

Originally Posted by Joe1004

I asked our account rep yesterday about it and he has confirmed that they are shutting this down on a region by region basis and that it should be turned off completely by the end of the month.

The official line is network congestion for a reason. Also, their documentation indicates that something like 99% of all SMS are delivered within 15 seconds.

I know that almost all the time the difference between send and the delivery coming back is anywhere from 18 t0 25 seconds and that includes the notification coming back, so they are right on this.

I like the notification a lot and when they turn it off, I will call and whine about it.

The "D" is still active in the Northeast.

[VZWRocksTim]

They've pulled (or are in the process of doing so) to ease things up on the network supposedly bit I agree it is dumb for them to do it. they have a GREAT network.

[Flash865]

Now we can just sit and wait for the announcement that they are offering a service called "Text Delivery Notifications" for $5.99 per month. Why give something away for free when you could be charging your user base a monthly fee for it?

[JGBerry]

SMS delivery confirmation has just been restored in the Philadelphia area (Tri-State area, PA, NJ, DE)