MT: strange SMS was a 'Rogue One'

Monday, 12 December 2016 00:00

Manx Telecom's apologised after a glitch meant many of its customers were sent a mysterious text message this morning.

People took to Twitter to ask the company about the garbled message, which contained Greek characters.

MT says the message was supposed to be a promotional SMS for a special offer on cinema tickets for the upcoming Star Wars movie.

It's now apologised, and says it's investigating why the message was scrambled.

We're currently investigating an issue with the Telecom Tuesdays SMS coming through as an error. Apologies to those who received this SMS. pic.twitter.com/OQ3Y0D0Jbj
— Manx Telecom (@manxtelecom) December 12, 2016

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