OTA OK?

November 28, 2005 9:50 PM
Related Categories: GRRR, Technology, Crazy

Today I got a wierd SMS message on my phone.  It came from '907' and said 'OTA OK'.  That was it.

I got it while at a board meeting, and when I got home did a little digging.  Turns out that message means the phone got some sort of update from the cell phone company regarding cellular towers or service or data. It means Over The Air - OK. No big deal.   Why show it as an SMS though?  Or at least use a phone number we could message back and say "huh"?  Is it only from t-mobile?

I found a web site where others were talking about it.  Aparenly a lot get the message, and it mostly comes at odd times of the day and night.  Sucks for those who get woken up at 3am with some mysterious text like that. 

I can just imagine some cheating husband or wife being with someone else and getting that and thinking 'crap, is that some kind of message from my wife?  does she know?  is she saying its ok?' haha  "Hey honey, I got your sms last night. I am so glad your ok with me and Lisa fooling around."  "what do you mean you didn't sms me last night?"  doh!

I would link to the site, but I lost it and can't find it now.  I got all distracted with Network Solutions DNS servers being down.  grrr

EDIT: I just got a bunch of traffic from google.  People must have got a blast of these messages recently.  Post a comment with your provider.  So far I am seeing most if not all t-mobil.


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# Posted By f | 12/7/05 12:44 PM
I just got it too. Also from t-mobile.
# Posted By Pete | 12/8/05 9:48 AM
Crazy, I got it and thought i was being involved in some international spy drama. Thank God! I have Tmobile and got mine at 330 am.
# Posted By Lorie | 12/23/05 11:48 AM
Damn this ota ok thing. grrr
# Posted By Flove | 1/10/06 9:34 AM
I have received that twice, both following calls to T-Mobile Customer Service. The first time I had called to complain about bad coverage in a high traffic area (they actually added a tower three months later!). The next time was to request that international roaming privilages be turned on for my phone.
# Posted By Patrick | 3/13/06 3:37 PM
I got the message, but my dad's innitials are OTA. So, at the time it was really wierd.
# Posted By pohano | 11/2/06 7:22 PM
KPN Prepay, The Neterlands. 16 Dec. 8:27PM GMT
# Posted By Youri | 12/16/06 3:38 PM
HI Prepay, The Netherlands. 24 Dec. 2006 21:58
# Posted By Chris | 12/23/06 6:27 PM
KPN Prepay, The Neterlands. 21 Dec. 6:45PM GMT
# Posted By Nobody | 12/28/06 2:35 PM
KPN, not prepay, The Netherlands. Two times this month, last time was today around 7.30PM (deleted the message already).

The strange thing for me was: both times I've recieved it I was in the same bar on the very same stool. Kinda spooky ;)
# Posted By Erik | 1/4/07 6:32 PM
Hi,
I am in Canada and I have gotten a 1-992 number calling my house an average of 20 times a day. I believe it is similar to what you are all experiencing. The odd thing is is that they are calling a landline in my case.
# Posted By Becky | 2/8/07 12:52 PM
Thanks for exaplaining me this big mastery. I got this mysterious message many times. I also have t-mobile.
# Posted By Claudia | 2/15/07 9:58 AM
I just got that and it totally scared me. I thought it was some weird acronym someone was trying to say to me. Also Tmobile.
# Posted By Jackie | 2/15/07 6:32 PM
Read on another site that it means "Over the Air OK" and comes up after the system has received an update. Apparently you are not charged airtime for this ....
# Posted By A Non | 2/16/07 2:32 AM
I'm in NJ and I got that message last night. It was supposedly sent 2 days ago but I just got it. I freaked out for a minute, but I'm glad I found this blog. I have T-mobile.
# Posted By Wandely | 2/20/07 10:51 AM
I GET THEM A COUPLE TIMES A MONTH FROM T-MOBILE
# Posted By BEN | 2/22/07 9:19 AM
I have been getting this OTA Ok ever since I got my cell pnone with t-mobile, about 7 years ago. My last one was february 15th 2007 at 1108 est.GRRRR!
# Posted By Radim | 2/23/07 10:07 AM
I just received this after I added worldwide roaming to my tmobile phone I did message 907 back with a WTF? Guess I won't get a response back. Thanks for the info though it helped...
# Posted By stacy | 2/24/07 11:19 PM
I recieved my OTA OK message after I asked T-Mobile for tempoary roaming while I was on vacation in Mexico. Kinda freaked me out, thats how I found this website. Thanks for the help! Be aware that if you make any changes on your service you might get this message, but if you call you cell phone provider they can block text from the 907 sender so you won't get them anymore.
# Posted By Cass | 3/8/07 12:28 AM
my provider is KPN also, from the Netherlands.
I get it like 4 times a year or something like that, i always thought somebody was hacking my phone or something ='D but now i get it, thanks!
# Posted By Noémi | 3/19/07 12:28 PM
We have a BlackBerry 8100 user who has received several of these from T-mobile. Each time he gets one, his Inbox gets badly out of sync with our mail system. We're pursuing with T-mobile to see what they are doing....
# Posted By pej | 4/9/07 2:34 PM
I got it when I was working on a project called OTA (Operational Transconductance Amplifiers). I was dealing with it for a week. I was not very hopeful that it will work after measurements but message said OTA OK so I took T-Mobile's word and ended my project. I will sue them if my project does not work.
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# Posted By office furniture | 9/28/07 3:39 AM
if you got a sms from 907 with "OTA OK", it is a free text message from t-mobile. It is just a over-the-air update to make sure that your sim card has all the necessary security updates.
# Posted By T-Mobile Employee | 11/1/07 7:55 AM
Me too here in Greece (Cosmote)
# Posted By ntsili | 12/19/07 2:03 PM
KPN - not prepaid. The Netherlands. Got it a few times (maybe five times) already, maybe half a year ago. I was flabbergasted. :)

A few minutes I got another one. Good ol' OTA Ok.
# Posted By Jelle | 1/23/08 8:59 AM
T-mobile here as well, got about 5 of them just now.
My Contact list in the Dash went blank, I shut down my phone and had those messages when I opened Messaging after starting it up again. (Also my contacts all showed up again... I was worried I lost them).
# Posted By Q | 4/13/08 1:21 AM
does anyone know if this message counts towards your monthly total? like if I have 250 messages and my monthly package is 250, will I have to pay for the message as message 251? I know several people said it was free, but what if you're already over in messaging for the month? Maybe a dumn question, I'm newer to tmobile and cell phones in general.
# Posted By tessmess | 5/4/08 5:54 PM
I have tmobile and just got mine at 6:15 PM Mountain Time.
# Posted By WarOnTara | 7/5/08 8:14 PM
I thought that my husband was cheating on me and that it ment
"Office to Apartment, OK"

Glad that I looked this up on the internet. We have T-Moible too.
# Posted By Sandra | 9/15/08 12:24 AM
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