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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: texst to a landline
Date: 3 Apr 2025 09:49:59 GMT
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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on 3 Jan 2025 18:23:22 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> >> In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:38:34 +0000, Andy Burns
> >> <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >micky wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> When someone unknowingly sends a text to a landline, does he get some
> >> >> indication back that the text did not reach the destination, because it
> >> >> can't receive texts?
> >> >
> >> >Here in the UK, text messages *can* be delivered to landlines, either to 
> >> >text-capable phones using an extension of the caller-ID delivery 
> >> >mechanism, or via a robot voice ... don't you have similar over there?
> >> 
> >> I don't know. I don't think so.  For several years I have beeen the
> >> contact person for the people who plow (plough?) our streets when it
> >> snows.  I saw the contract  yesterday and it has my landline first, and
> >> my cell number.  I'm still living in the 1950's and I envisioned them
> >> calling me on the phone, but now I see they send texts.  I got one on
> >> the cell a year ago and another yesterday.  I've never gotten any
> >> message from them on my landline, so I wonder if they tried and realized
> >> it wasn't accepting texts and they switched to the other number.
> >
> >  Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
> >asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your
> >and their telco and setups).
> 
> It never occurred to me that one could get texts on a landline until
> someone here, I think, suggested it.  And I couldn't find any
> information on how to do it. 

  Sigh! Use your mobile phone and (try to) send a 'text' (SMS message)
to  your own landline number.

  You have everything needed for such a test, so you can test it
yourself instead asking others:

<repeat>
> >  Sigh! As you have a landline, why don't *you* try/test it, instead of
> >asking here for an impossible to give answer (because it depends on your
> >and their telco and setups).
</repeat>

> >  If it works for you, it will also work for them, because in that test
> >your landline telco and their setup is the deciding factor.
> >
> >  If it does not work for you,
> 
> If what works for me? 
 
  Your 'text'/SMS test from your mobile phone to your landline.

> > it doesn't mean it doesn't work for them,
> >so it's undecided and the only things you can do is ask them to test it
> >or remove your landline number from their contact list. In most cases,
> >the 'customer', i.e. you, should be able to do that themselves, but that
> >depends on how customer-friendly their IT is.
> >
> >[...]