Is it possible to send a text message to a landline?

kaaloo · 8 March 2005 at 10:25PM

I just had a text message on my mobile from a mate.

Shortly after, my landline rang and when I answered it, it was a recorded message from BT(im on cable) and the woman read out the same text message I had on my mobile! Was quite funny actually.

I was quite surprised as Id never seen this before - she even told me who had sent it.

Is this new? Do I get charged to listen etc? Also what is the bt link??

fairy_godmother · 8 March 2005 at 10:34PM

I've been using this for some while. You can send a text with Vodafone and 3, but it didn't work on T-Mobile. My landline is with NTL. I don't think that this service has been advertised at all - not sure why tho'

andyd · 8 March 2005 at 11:09PM

Works on Orange as well. As far as i know you don't get charged just for picking up the phone and listening to the text when the phone rings.

Really good innovation IMO.

Queenie · 9 March 2005 at 7:19AM

I can see all of the most curious sending themselves text messages to their land lines now just to check this out

Ooops, phone ringing, must dash ...

suki1964 · 9 March 2005 at 7:43AM

I have a Bt cordless phone which sends and receives texts although I have never used it as you have to have a BT line and Im with Telewest

Glad · 9 March 2005 at 8:04AM

It works it works :j :T

I'm on orange monthly and landline is BT

Mobicate · 9 March 2005 at 8:20AM

works fine with all tmobile and bt lines ... not sure about others,

o2 works as well

virgin will probably work too as its on same net as tmob

THESE DONT COME OUT OF YOUR FREE SMS!! they are charged at the rate of a standard sms

surfnlurk · 9 March 2005 at 10:05AM

This service is actually designed for use with SMS enabled home phones. Really need to subscribe to caller ID to use it effectivley. The actual text message will then appear on the landline phone. If you don't use caller ID then the message becomes a spoken message by an automated operator. Hence the reason you can all get spoken text messages. It can sometimes be very difficult to understand them as most seem to origionate in India.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=78012

Good example of text enabled dect phones at an unbelievable 60% off Argos price.
Great for receiving text, not so easy for sending as the predictive text is prety naff.

andy88_2 · 9 March 2005 at 11:09AM

It's also a way of spreading junk text messages, which has confused people when they get a message to call some answerphone service; there's a thread about it somewhere

Queenie · 9 March 2005 at 11:55AM

Mobicate wrote:

THESE DONT COME OUT OF YOUR FREE SMS!! they are charged at the rate of a standard sms

*Now* you tell me!!

Thanks for letting me know before I got tooooooo carried away

Fortyfoot · 10 March 2005 at 6:12PM

Mobicate wrote:

works fine with all tmobile and bt lines ... not sure about others,

o2 works as well

virgin will probably work too as its on same net as tmob

THESE DONT COME OUT OF YOUR FREE SMS!! they are charged at the rate of a standard sms

Hi there, just got my Vodaphone bill this morning and mine come out of my free SMS!
Fortyfoot

Is it possible to send a text message to a landline?

Comments

Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply

🚀 Getting Started

Categories

Is this how you want to be seen?

Get our FREE Weekly email full of deals & guides - and it’s spam-free