If you received an inexplicable, out-of-the-blue text message from one of your contacts on Thursday morning (Nov.7), you’re not alone.
Numerous individuals on social media reported that they either received mysterious texts from people they knew, or one of their contacts was sent a puzzling text from them. More than a dozen people reached out to Quartz directly to tell us they’d been affected.
It turns out that during some routine maintenance at Syniverse, a third-party vendor that works with multiple carriers to provide text messaging services, hundreds of thousands of undelivered texts were mistakenly delivered to puzzled recipients. A spokesman from Syniverse told Quartz that 168,149 previously undelivered text messages were accidentally sent to multiple mobile operators’ subscribers.
“We apologize to anyone who was impacted by this occurrence,” William Hurley, chief marketing and product officer at Syniverse, said in a statement provided to Quartz. “While the issue
Article source: https://qz.com/1744280/people-are-just-now-receiving-delayed-texts-from-february/
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