Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Green Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:25:48 +0000 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net K8JQgQkR1kbBnqYznO7EXApKhWdpAtCqv4xiLsmP5+cix6t1A= X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:b4Pv2jM+uS2W18+ZsrU+Z6FvzXU= sha256:I3RzP2C4yll0yheAAcg6bUTKJeQ8bxAQMjaJN1lyKbQ= User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-28-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146171 Chris wrote: > > In the UK receiving txt messages via landline is (was? I've not had one for > ages) commonplace: texts are delivered as an automated voice message. > Yes, still true, it depends on the way the SMS gets sent to you though. We have DECT phones on a landline which isn't yet VOIP. The DECT handsets can receive and display SMS but, as I said, depending on the sender and intermediate systems, we sometimes get an actual text and other times a computer generated voice reading the message. -- Chris Green ยท