Palm isn't so optimistic about the proceedings: according to a study it commissioned in the UK with lpsos MORI, 70% of people who send messages at midnight experience a delayindelivery, with places like London experience 77% delays, and 23% of Britons waiting over six hours for their text messages to arrive.
Mr Black said the parliament's corporate body had not significantly altered requirements over the last four years and as such the main cause of the delay since September 2000 was the production of detailed variations in the design and the late delivery of information.