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[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato <alfonso.sanchez-beato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just found a costly bug while looking through my provider's monthly
> reports. I'm posting it here to raise awareness and warn my fellow Ubuntu
> phone users from sending messages when they don't have a reliable network
> connection.
>
> Here's a quote from the bug report I filed [1]:
>
>> When having a bad network connection, Ubuntu tries to send SMS multiple
>> times but fails to recognize which messages have already been sent,
>> resulting in very high costs due to the same message actually being sent
>> several times.
>>
>> I found this when looking through my provider's monthly reports and I
>> remember being on train journeys with very bad network connections on these
>> days. See the attached screenshots.
>>
> To be honest, I'm really disappointed that this could happen at all.
>
>
This is worrying, thanks for your report. I have added a comment in the bug.

Br,
Alfonso