Hi,

yes.  they need to have a reliable 3G or, wifi connection.  This is not the 
case for a standard text message.

hth

Ricardo Walker
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On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Vicky Collins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are text messages delivered more reliably than iMessages?  For, sometimes, 
> when I've sent an iMessage to my sister, she has told me she didn't get it 
> till a few hours later, although she normally gets them pretty quickly after 
> I have sent them.
> 
> On the other hand, though, my brother tells me that he doesn't get the 
> iMessages I send around seven in the morning when he is away from home, until 
> he gets back home after five in the afternoon.  But, when I turned off the 
> iMessage feature and just sent him a text message today, he got it right 
> away, around the seven in the morning.  Oh, I can normally receive his 
> iMessages just after they are sent.
> 
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