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From: Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam>
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Subject: Re: texst to a landline
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 20:06:23 -0500
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On 1/3/2025 3:52 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Newyana2 wrote:
> 
>> micky wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to find how to allow texts to a Verizion FIOS line has been
>>> suprisingly unsuccessful.
>>
>> There's no such thing. Think it through. Where could the text display
>> even if it did come through? 
> 
> Aren't DECT phone common over there?� Many of them have SMS capability 
> when on a PSTN/POTS line.
> 

   I don't know what DECT or POTS mean. We have landlines
that can be direct phone wires or VOIP. Either way, the
phones are the same. There's room for maybe 12 letter in
the Caller ID display and no facility to receive a text.
They can receive an audio message, but then, who's going
to go to the trouble to sned an audio message when most of
the people they know have texting?