IPhone completely fails to send a txt/SMS message

Hi,
I've tried sending a txt message with full signal and near instantly it says 'error sending message'. I called o2 support and they said to to do a restart, reset all settings, reset network settings and nothing has worked! This is really ******* me off.
Can anyone suggest anything?
I have an iPhone 3G, I'm in the UK with o2.

Same here. It seems that there are too many users suffering the same problem. See, for instance, thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1804224
I tried almost everything, except reset the iPhone as new. I don't want to lose all my data unless I've got an official advise that it would solve the problem.
I hope Apple is listening as THIS IS A BIG ISSUE.
(iPhone 3G, Spain, Movistar)

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