Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:34:45 +0000, Prasad, Ramit wrote:

> Michael Torrie wrote:
[...]
>> However I know of no phone or network that won't let you use longer
>> messages; multiple SMS packets are used and most phone paste them back
>> together.  So no there's nothing that anyone needs to change to use
>> longer messages if they so chose.  It's now just an arbitrary limit,
>> part of the twitter culture.
> 
> 
> True, but order of delivery is not guaranteed. I still sometimes get out
> of order text message when multiple messages are sent at once.

SMS delivery is not guaranteed *at all*. It's a best-effort delivery 
service, which means the telco can drop any SMSes it feels like, for any 
reason it likes, without notice or notification.



-- 
Steven