Eli5: what happens to the things I send when someone doesn’t have service?

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When I send a bunch of things to someone and they don’t have service (i.e. on an airplane, in mountains, etc) what happens to all the data that’s been sent? They get everything all at once when they’re back in service, so is the data just like waiting in the network for the signal to be restored?

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the message is held by the service provider until the recipient’s device is able to connect to the network again.

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