Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: 4 Jan 2025 19:41:27 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QxkGhwGa5NHI7yxawzplHAsAjsapm5gS8MmcQLfE/N2JyJ7x/C X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:s5Cl80d5+QZs+ndYk9GFiKEuiNU= sha256:Y7kDm3USOyl+8e6dV49dRDaYuGCZBlybzYyKhIh34UI= 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: 2111 Andy Burns wrote: > 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 ... And even if it's IP telephony, the user end, i.e. the 'last mile' can still be POTS, i.e. local copper wire and *analog* telephones. For example my neighbour (in The Netherlands) still has that and she doesn't want to change and she doesn't have to change. OTOH, AFAIK her base-station/handset combination is DECT, so the very last bit is partly digital, but not IP. Confusing, isn't it!? :-)