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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: texst to a landline
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 00:14:50 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> 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.

Thanks for confirming. I suspect with the move to VOIP receiving texts will
be transparent in what used to be landlines.