Thread: Garmin In Reach

Originally Posted by Reindeer

I have had the odd msg to arrive too. It isn't very often tho.
There used to be a feature available that sent a GPS reference point with each message. Unfortunately that ment that the cell providers recognized those a spam an blocked the messages from being received by a nz cell user.
A message from Garmin to nz users came to ensure this feature was disabled so nz cell providers didn't block messages as spam.
So if you haven't disabled this feature it still tries to attach ref point and gets blocked as spam.
This doesn't happen at the user point it's something in the network transition from iridium.

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Yes I noticed this a few months back, annoying as fk that our beloved telcoms decided that we no longer wanted this useful feature.
I’m surprised Garmin didn’t go after them, being the size that they are.
I can still get exactly the same types of texts, with a clickable link, from the marketing department at The Toolshed(!) so I know it’s still possible.