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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: 5 Jan 2025 13:00:58 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 25 Message-ID: <vle3ak.k20.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> References: <rsofnjpf31014t083pd40ba8qhsi08hu69@4ax.com> <ltq7iqF7jg1U1@mid.individual.net> <p2rfnjdck84fvjcg1oiqbu45pfvjjrqmpn@4ax.com> <vl9ide$2l66$1@dont-email.me> <vl9om6$3po4$1@dont-email.me> <vla1j0$5a06$2@dont-email.me> <vlaq7f$26e7r$1@solani.org> <7njn4lxc3o.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <vlbed2$g21g$1@dont-email.me> <vlc8kt.pa0.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <vlckc2$mmqa$1@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net iNG2EHhIInwvjMGI0DfnKwOMcwh8AUEuXibTbQsGDxWTfml7WK X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:tfap+v8jVdbDFaEeV3k/Fz02Mcs= sha256:fHmhDROepfIvntyo7Bw8Jinm8cCOq6LijgcCgxjPAFw= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2097 Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: > > Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote: > > [...] > > > >> We were forced to rent telephones until they broke up Bell > >> Telephone. Long distance calls only became affordable much > >> later. To this day I wouldn't call Europe. I have no idea what > >> it would cost. > > > > Well, you could install Skype on your computer (or smartphone ("Yeah, > > *right*!")) and call European landlines for a few cents per minute (if > > that 'much') and mobile numbers for a bit more. > > Or simply use whatsapp. Large swathes of the European population use > whatsapp and calls only require data; i.e. free using home wifi. Yes, but that applies to normal people in non third-world countries. That doesn't apply here! :-) Expecting the caller to accept to use Skype is already a big ask and probably a too big one. But yes, we use WhatsApp with our relatives in Australia, all the time. [...]