{"id":2264,"date":"2018-06-20T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2018-11-24T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T13:23:15","slug":"reasons-behind-a-failed-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/reasons-behind-a-failed-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the reasons behind a failed SMS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sometimes it happens that your SMS is failed to deliver. You can check the status of SMS in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/how-delivery-report-works\/\">delivery report<\/a> section in <strong>Fast2SMS<\/strong>. The following image describes that the message is failed. It is shown as a red colored circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/failed2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/failed2.png\" alt=\"Deliver report of failed SMS\" width=\"609\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/failed2.png 882w, https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/failed2-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fast2sms.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/failed2-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Reasons behind a failed SMS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Invalid number<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Subscriber is not available at that time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Inbox memory is full or exceeded<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">SMS timeout after all retry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Network failed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Unidentified Subscriber, No response from the handset.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Number out of coverage area\/ Switched Off.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The recipient cannot receive incoming messages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Network or Protocol Failure other than the listed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Short Message rejected by MS because of no memory capacity to store the messages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Congestion Encountered at the visited MSC or the SGSN.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Recipient MS has no SMS subscription.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">No allocated IMSI or directory number for the mobile subscriber in the HLR.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The PLMN has rejected the short message because the MS failed authentication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">All the retries from different operators have been made.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Note :<\/strong><\/span> Our system works on\u00a0<b>submission basis. <\/b>Means as soon as you push the\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0from our system it will debit the\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0cost, now its on operators when they will deliver or mark that\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">failed<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We don&#8217;t refund for\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">failed<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as operator also don&#8217;t refund us for the\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">failed<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">If you&#8217;re sending\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to DND numbers from Bulk\u00a0<span class=\"m_4774214976102310605gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">SMS<\/span><\/span>\u00a0promotional route then we&#8217;ll not debit the charge for DND numbers &amp; for Blocked Numbers.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it happens that your SMS is failed to deliver. You can check the status of SMS in the delivery report section in Fast2SMS. The following image describes that the message is failed. It is shown as a red colored circle. Reasons behind a failed SMS Invalid number Subscriber is not available at that time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Sometimes it happens that your SMS is failed to deliver. You can check the status of SMS in the delivery report section in Fast2SMS. The following image describes that the message is failed. 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