I saw there was / is an issue with MT alerts however I wanted to mention that I am seeing delays of SMS alerts with MS and MR devices as well.
I did some work on a switch this afternoon between 13:18-13:45 NZ time and I only received SMS alerts at 15:24 to say the equipment had gone offline and come back online.
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