Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:55:42 +0000 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oBCsz0xBLye499WN/WxziAEAfm/6P9K5WaqkzEFakWpoHtK5Go Cancel-Lock: sha1:+ihL8aUiWcOeWeM4NTYhe961xgc= sha256:VDmx4JZ1uZTUqcN1esn1oQX6v5EsRYTRRS1Lh7sGvys= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146184 Jörg Lorenz wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > >> Aren't DECT phone common over there? Many of them have SMS capability >> when on a PSTN/POTS line. > > In Europe IP-Telephone Services are standard. POTS/PSTN does not exist > anymore. This dates back to 2017 in the case of Switzerland. I think you are overstating the facts, I'm sure most European countries are in the process of migrating to VoIP, as far as I can tell only Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden claim to have completed this, and even then, does "completed" mean absolutely 100%, I doubt it ...