I’m sure I’m not the only one who experiences this.
You txt a friend to suggest a meeting ( lunch, drink, whatever ) and they dont answer. But you go meet them anyway because you know they have no life, just like you.
While you’re sitting there with them, an hour or two later, they get a txt, from you, suggesting the lunch you have just eaten….
Thats modern technology for you! You can drive 20km and have lunch before an electronic message can get there.
Two hours delivery time is not the worst though. I’ve had situations where I could have posted a letter and beaten the txt to the destination. Two to three DAYS delivery time.
And this is not about location either, I could understand if I was trying to reach someone in the middle of the Kaweka Ranges and they were most likely out of the coverage area. But sending a txt between two heavily populated cities shouldn’t really be a problem.
Maybe its just that the phone companies would rather you spent more money and made a call, so they deliver txt messages if and when they get around to it…?
Perhaps its just ‘congestion’ a favorite word in telecommunications companies lingo. So just like our poor old phone lines and exchanges, the mobile networks are trying to empty a swimming pool with a drinking straw.
We have all these wonderful personal communication gadgets available but will NZ be able to use them?
Its a bit like buying a Ferrari and then realising you only have a farm track to drive on 
