Why does my iPhone 4 receive some text messages whilst others get lost?

Having a problem with text messages as some are not being received by my phone , quite frustrating any ideas anyone?

Has nothing to do with your iPhone. After a message is sucessfully sent, what happens to the message after that has nothing to do with the phone that sent the message or with the recipient's phone.
Contact your carrier.

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