SMSPortal experienced a minor incident on March 20, 2024 affecting Africa, lasting 2h 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 20, 2024, 05:45 AM UTC
Cell C SA is currently experiencing an outage due to an overnight update they performed on their SMSCs. As a result SMS delivery towards Cell C SA is degraded. SMSPortal have rerouted all possible traffic in order to limit any impact to customers but please note that Reverse Billed (FTEU) messaging is still affected. Please do not resubmit any messages that you believe may be affected. Type: Network Outage Impact: Customers may experience irregular delivery with inconsistent delivery times when sending Reverse Billed (FTEU) messages to Cell C SA. We appreciate your patience while the operator works to resolve the issue and we will keep you updated. Please contact [email protected] should you require further information or assistance. The SMSPortal Team
- resolved Mar 20, 2024, 07:53 AM UTC
After extensive monitoring we believe this issue to be resolved. The affected messages have been resubmitted at no cost to our customers.