Delayed text messages and voicemail notifications

Hi all,
I am really at my wit's end with this problem. For about a week and a half, I have been having a severe text message delay. My sent messages go out fine, and are received immediately, but I have been receiving messages anywhere from a few hours to a few days late. These messages are from both people on AT&T and otherwise. When the messages do come through, they come in bursts--one message right after the other as if they were all just sent. The only luck I have had in receiving my messages in a more timely fashion has been to keep turning off and turning back on my phone.
Additionally, I have been having similar issues receiving voicemail. Someone could leave me a voicemail in the morning and I won't even be aware there was a message until well into the evening. Again, turning off the phone and turning it back on is the only thing that seems to work.
I have spent countless hours on the phone with both AT&T and iPhone tech support over the past 4 days, and each day I am told "all set, the problem's fixed!", and yet it persists. I have already reset my phone, completely restored my phone, etc., etc. Also I have not changed locations recently (that might affect the service, for example), and this problems persists even when I have a full signal. Earlier today, AT&T support completely reset my voicemail, and that has not fixed the situation, either.
Please if anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. AT&T seems to have no more options for me, and naturally they blame the phone, and iPhone support blames AT&T, and ultimately nothing is getting fixed.
Thank you for your help.

Text & voicemail are both carrier features, so I would lean more to the problem being on AT&T's side than your phone. Especially since you've indicated that you've done a restore. However, there are a couple of things left you can do:
1. Get a new sim card. Go to an AT&T store & have them replace your sim, they should not charge you for this.
2. If the problem still persists after replacing the sim, make an appointment at an Apple store. They have diagnostic equipment that can tell instantly if your phone has a hardware problem.

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