TCI’s undelivered sms charge continues as before

According to figures issued by MCI officials, 20 to 30 percent of messages fail to reach their destinations, which, with MCI not honoring its pledge, have resulted in a hefty income for the company.
Latest figures show that MCI’s 27 million subscribers send 40 million messages per day at the rate of 222 and 89 rials (two to a fraction of a dollar) for non Persian and Persian messages respectively.
MCI officials attribute such incidents to cases such as the receiver’s set being off, message sent to a wrong number or receiver phone box being full, and believe only a small number of incidents were caused by problems in the network.
Khodarahmi believes, however, that this is largely due to MCI selling more sim cards than its network could cope.

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