Why do SMS text messages sent to my iPhone while its powered off fail to arrive when I switch it back on?

Normally if someone sends you a SMS text message when your phone is switched off the message will be delivered to you when you switch the phone back on.
My iPhone 4 running iOS7 doesn't do this.
If someone sends me a SMS text message while the phone is off it permanently disappears. When I turn my phone on the message never arrives.
The problem has been identified when the person sending the text is using another iPhone, an Android phone, a Blackberry or an old Nokia handset.
The problem is repeatable 100% of the time.
If my phone is switched on it receives texts ok.
If I put my SIM card in another iPhone it works fine.
Anyone know why this is happening?

Same problem there. That turning off 3G fix didn't work for me.
It appears to be a fault with IoS 7 and iPhone 4.
Here are lots of threads reporting the same problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5503516
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23422882#23422882
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5434980
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5483683
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24889336#24889336
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24865349#24865349
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24865337#24865337
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24864023#24864023
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24864020#24864020
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5454641
I've done a bug report. Maybe we should all do a bug report?

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